Letting Black Lives Matter maniacs run wild and dictate policy inevitably resulted not only in $billions in property damage but in an ongoing explosion of violent crime. Yet cities that have succumbed to the Democrat Death Spiral, rather than pull back in horror from the abyss, plunge ever deeper into moonbattery. Avowed socialist and Black Lives Matter supporter India B. Walton won the Democrat primary, so she will be the next Mayor of Buffalo. Here’s what that means for public safety:

Walton has said that she wants to cut the funding to the police force and send social workers to respond to some emergency calls instead.

On Wednesday, Walton reiterated that policy when responding to an incident where a 3-year-old was shot.

If the savages who make Buffalo unsafe will shoot a 3-year-old, odds are slim that they will spare social workers. Nonetheless, moonbattery dictates that they be deployed to address crime, because police officers only make matters worse.

“It is my concern that that community has experienced a very deeply hurtful trauma, and our response was to re-victimize them with another traumatic event, rather than sending in social workers and mental health counselors,” Walton said.

She said she plans to reallocate $7.5 million of police funds to social programs.

If there are any sane people left in Buffalo, get out before it’s too late — and don’t relocate to a city run by Democrats, or you will only have to escape again.

On a tip from Bluto.

Having spent a year watching Black Lives Matter thugs deface and destroy statues that represent American heritage in the name of an ideology that is ferociously hostile to the USA and most of the people who live in it, few will be surprised to hear that BLM regards the American Flag as a “symbol a hatred” — i.e., something they want canceled:

The average Democrat voter would rather subvert what the flag means than burn it. But relative moderates are not in charge; maniacs are.

The entire liberal establishment enthusiastically supported Black Lives Matter mobs throughout the jihad against patriotic statuary. It isn’t likely to be Democrats who intervene when their Antifa allies theatrically set fire to American flags. Powerful federal bureaucrats make a spectacle of preferring the “Progress Pride” flag to Old Glory. The country’s most powerful publication calls the flag “alienating.” When New York Times writers see the flag flying, they react with horror. A transsexual exploits the soapbox eagerly provided by the media to proclaim that he wants to win an Olympic medal (as a woman) so he can “burn a US flag on the podium.”

Average Democrats may just be along for the ride, but they are going where the radicals want them to go. As the world’s premiere symbol of liberty, the American flag has no place there.

On tips from Jack Bauer and KirklesWorth.

It takes no more than a tweeted rumor to set off the mob. Pray no one tweets about you, or you could end up like Edward Cagney Mathews of the Philadelphia suburb Mount Laurel. After context-free video of him spewing racial invective at a Neighbor of Color who pushed him and called him a “white monkey” hit social media, Black Lives Matter showed up at his house.

In the video, he behaved like a belligerent jerk asking for trouble. But if belligerent jerks don’t have the right of free speech, then no one does — and if they don’t get to live in a civilized country, no one does.

Renegade Tribute reports:

Mathews was placed under arrest for bias intimidation and harassment and was later hit with additional bias intimidation and assault charges. As best as I can tell, the assault charges may have been for him getting up in his neighbor’s face and pushing his belly into him.

Not even one member of the mob who attacked him, responding police, or his house was placed under arrest.

Watch how the mob behaves as Mathews is taken into custody:

It is now commonplace to see savages throwing missiles at the police, knowing that there will be no consequences because the liberal establishment will always take their side.

Rather than telling BLM not to form vigilante mobs and surround and attack people’s homes and instead let our justice system work out such disputes, Burlington County Prosecutor Scott Coffina told the mob they “had every right to be upset” because of his “despicable conduct.”

The town’s mayor Stephen Steglik issued a statement that Mathews makes him sick to his stomach. Mathews “is not who we are.” The mob is.

Officers were hit with pepper spray and bottles. Not only Mathews’ townhouse but those adjoining it were damaged by the mob. But he’s the one in jail, not for being a jerk, but for angering Black Lives Matter.

Civilization is collapsing before our eyes. Liberals may not like what replaces it as much as they think.

On a tip from Wiggins.

After watching them tear down our country for the past year — looting stores, burning police stations, defiling and destroying statues of our heroes, advancing Marxism, attacking the concept of family, promoting perversion, making sports unwatchable, spewing poisonous lies at America even on the Fourth of July — you may think there could be no lower lifeform than a Black Lives Matter supporter. Yet there is: a Black Lives Matter supporter who tortures cats.

Sick ideologies attract sick individuals. Introducing Rashad Gober:

Cambridge Police announced the arrest of Gober, 31, at his home on Thursday, and charged him with four counts of animal cruelty, dating from March to May of this year. The investigation was initially opened after the discovery of a cat called Gosha on May 6th, who was huddled underneath a car, with her legs bound by masking tape. Further analysis on the deceased cat found a large percentage of her fur missing, also concluding that she had been shot repeatedly with a BB gun, with officers concluding that she had been subject to cruel torture.

The investigation then discovered two further cases of animal cruelty that they linked together, including a BB gun being used to wound a cat called Tammy on March 3rd/4th, who survived, and the case of Buddy on May 5th, who had suffered chemical burns.

As with many criminals, Gober may have been done in by his own low IQ. He posted fantastic social media claims presenting himself as a savior of cats. More incriminating was the trail of cat food that he apparently used to lure victims into his apartment. Google queries taken from his phone include:

• Ways to torture a cat without killing it

• Will Clorox burn a cat

• How to lure neighborhood cats

• I hate cats and caught one

• Cat cruelty video clips

Gober is an enthusiastic BLM supporter. He wrote a mock obituary memorializing himself for having been killed by a racist white police officer. Predictably, he seems to blame his legal predicament on the police, racism, etc.:

In a series of tweets a few days before his arrest and charge, potentially at the time of his questioning, Gober attempted to blame the actions of the police on racism, not the fact that he had clearly behaved suspiciously enough to be called in. “I seriously hate [Boston],” Gober tweeted. “This is the most racist place I’ve ever lived and I grew up in South Carolina.” He proceeded to describe Cambridge Police as “the most incompetent group of insecure pieces of sh*t that I’ve ever encountered,” and said they should be ashamed of themselves.

Gober probably wishes the police really were incompetent. He could get away with torturing helpless cats to his heart’s content if they were as clueless as the white liberal community, which…

…seemingly contacted Massachusetts State Representative Mike Connolly, a radical anti-police BLM supporter, on [Gober’s] behalf – according to online posts, Connolly then “went out of his way” to get in touch with Gober and assure him he would be able to fight for him against the seemingly racist police.

Brace yourself for a terrifying glimpse into the abyss of depravity that is moonbattery:

One of those who reached out to Connolly was Buddy’s owner himself, Craig Garvin, who in a statement said that he had “made us feel sympathy for you when you reached out to us with a moving story about how a raid by the police had left you distraught and emotionally damaged,” adding that it was “obvious from these deceptions that you wanted a larger impact than just the harm of an animal.”

According to the woke ideology that prevails in Cambridge, home of Harvard, a left-wing gay black person in trouble with the police is the ultimate paragon of virtue, regardless of context.

If we can’t even agree on the topic of torturing cats, there is truly no hope of reconciliation.

On a tip from DM.

Q: What do you get when you cross Black Lives Matter types with the terrorist trappings of the only religion liberals can abide?

A: Rise of the Moors.

From the Boston Herald:

Eleven self-identified militiamen on their way to “training” in Maine are behind bars after what police described as a heavily armed group that “does not recognize our laws” entered into — and at times live-steamed and narrated — an eight-hour highway standoff with cops in Wakefield [Massachusetts] on Saturday.

It all started when a state trooper saw vehicles stopped in the breakdown lane of I95 at 3 a.m. Saturday. People conspicuously armed and wearing tactical gear were using gas cannisters to refuel.

According to State Police Colonel Christopher Mason,

The trooper asked the men for their driver’s licenses and licenses to carry firearms, which the men either didn’t have or didn’t provide…

Negotiation tactics avoided bloodshed as the multiple maniacs were eventually arrested.

The Anti-Defamation League lists the “growing” Moorish movement as a Black offshoot of the sovereign-citizen cause.

CBS Boston reports on some of the stuff Rise of the Moors has been spewing in YouTube videos:

WBZ-TV security analyst and former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis says the group “identified police and anybody who wanted to place them under arrest as terrorists, and they talked about tactically attacking police officers who were attempting to do their duty.”

Jahmal Latimer, a.k.a. Talib Abdulla Bey, proclaims himself to be leader of Rise of the Moors and grand chief of the territory that some mistakenly refer to as Rhode Island. They don’t have their own flag, so they fly Morocco’s.

Although most everything about Rise of the Moors calls for guffaws, Davis notes that they have been training as terrorists.

Black Lives Matter established that certain groups do not have to obey even the most fundamental laws — for example, looting and arson may be excused by local authorities, not to mention avidly encouraged by the liberal media and nationally powerful Democrats like Kamala Harris. As the country spins out of control under Democrat rule, there are sure to be both laughs and bloodshed aplenty.

On a tip from Lyle.

Anyone who attended a typical Tea Party rally can testify that the grounds were cleaner afterward than before it started. No one says that about moonbat events like the “pride” march in Manhattan on Sunday:

Sherman’s March to the Sea left less of a mess.

It isn’t just LGBT militants. As Rob Natelson observed back in 2017:

The mess created by “progressive” rallies and demonstrations has become legendary. The Occupy movement left tons of litter for hapless sanitation workers to clean up after their 2011 protests. More recently, the “Women’s March” did the same. The Black Lives Matter movement has been even worse, adding riots and looting to their mounds of trash.

That was before mostly peaceful BLM protesters spent 2020 causing over $2 billion in damage with their riots.

Organizer Mark Meckler explains why there was no mess at Tea Party rallies:

I’m sure that good, neighborly behavior was encouraged, but the reality is that this is just how folks on the right generally behave. We believe in the rule of law. We believe in the right to “peaceably” assemble. We believe in private property rights. And we believe in the Golden Rule. Were we “angry?” Sure, we were—and frankly, we still are. But we were civil, non-destructive, and certainly never criminal. These are hallmarks of conservative protests and are the exact opposite of what one sees on the left.

Last January 6 was the exception that proved the rule, and occurred only after many hundreds of media-approved Black Lives Matter riots that apparently convinced some that the rules had changed.

Actually, the rules of citizenship are the same as they have always been; the only difference is that leftists are more arrogant than ever in their refusal to obey them.

The bad guys have the advantage of not having to follow rules. But the good guys have the advantage of being the good guys. As Natelson asks, “[W]ould you rather have a person in a position of power who appeals to decent, conscientious people—or one who panders to rioters and metaphorical pigs?”

On tips from Henry.

To express their resolution to erase our history and heritage, leftists have spent the past year defacing, tearing down, or officially removing hundreds of statues of great historical figures throughout the country, including Albert Pike, Alexander Andreyevich Baranov, Andrew Jackson, Caesar Rodney, Charles Linn, Christopher Columbus, Clayton Jackson McGhie, Colonel Charles Didier Dreux, David Dodd, Diego de Vargas, Edward Carmack, Fitzhigh Lee, Francis Scott Key, Frank Rizzo, Frederick Douglass, George Preston Marshall, George Washington, George Whitefield, Hans Christian Heg, Henry Lawson Wyatt, Hiawatha, J.E.B. Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Jerry Richardson, Jesus Christ, John C. Calhoun, John Mason, John McDonough, John Sutter, Joseph Bryan, Josephus Daniels, Juan de Onate, Kit Carson, Mahatma Gandhi, Marcus Daly, Matthew Fountain Maury, Matthias Baldwin, Orville Hubbard, Phillip Schuyler, Private Benjamin Welch Owens, Robert E. Lee, Robert Gould Shaw, Sam Davis, Sophie B. Wright, St. Junipero Serra, Stonewall Jackson, Thaddeus Kosciuszko, Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Ulysses S. Grant, the Virgin Mary, Zebulon Baird Vance, and more, along with many war memorials and even the Ten Commandments.

Statues reminding us of the forbidden past are to be replaced by memorials to people leftists demand we revere, like the violent career criminal who perished in the world’s most famous fentanyl overdose, George Floyd.

Whereas the old statues were profane, the new ones are holy according to the religion of our liberal overlords. Therefore, they must never be treated disrespectfully; that would cause offense. It may also launch a federal investigation:

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams called for federal authorities to investigate the vandalism of George Floyd statues in both Brooklyn and New Jersey on Friday, just hours after they were defaced with slogans from a notorious white supremacy group — and before the afternoon sentencing of the ex-cop who was convicted of his murder.

The conviction of Derek Chauvin for personifying whiteness capped off a show trial worthy of the Soviet Union under Stalin.

Eric Adams will be the next mayor of New York, having emerged as the least terrifying of the moonbats running as Democrats. No Republican stands a chance, NYC having succumbed to the Democrat Death Spiral like Detroit before it.

After they have purged the country of all monuments that do not reflect reverence for our new national religion, Critical Race Theory, vandalizing statues will no longer be encouraged or even tolerated by the liberal establishment.

On tips from KirklesWorth and Wiggins.

Our new holiday enshrining critical race theory as the national religion to reward black supremacists and their allies for hundreds of riots that injured thousands of police officers and caused $billions in damages is so important that the CDC postponed an emergency meeting on postvaccination heart inflammation in its honor. Each of the old deprecated holidays waiting to be canceled was celebrated in its own traditional way. Likewise, Juneteenth will be celebrated with traditions that are already taking shape.

Unsurprisingly, Juneteenth will not be the favorite holiday of law enforcement officers. In Michigan:

A man in a car allegedly drove up to a police officer in Michigan who was working a Juneteenth parade and opened fire on the officer.

“Upon investigation, the Flint Police Officer was working a traffic point at the Juneteenth Champions Parade when an individual in a vehicle drove up and shot at the officer,” NBC 25 reported.

The Black Lives Matter agenda isn’t only about waging war on the police. It is also about wallowing in the anarchy that results when the police have been defunded, hamstrung, marginalized, and demoralized. In California:

A fatal shooting at Lake Merritt, Oakland, left a 22-year-old man dead and five others injured on Saturday during an event to mark Juneteenth.

In North Carolina:

An emergency responder was shot while on duty during a Juneteenth event at Roberts Park in Raleigh. …

The EMS worker was assisting with a medical call for a child who was at Roberts Park.

While the responder was walking back to his vehicle, multiple shots were fired across the park. Those bullets hit the ambulance and the emergency responder, according to officials.

In New Jersey:

A celebration gave way to rioting in Long Branch, New Jersey. Hundreds of people took to the streets in a Juneteenth celebration that quickly turned violent, the Lakewood Scoop reported.

Police in full riot gear had to be dispatched to the area in order to quell the unrest. The reasoning for the riot is unknown at this time.

Unknown? It was Juneteenth!

In Pennsylvania:

Police are investigating a triple shooting in West Philadelphia that left two men dead and a 3-year-old child injured.

At last word, no arrests had been made in Philadelphia. However, there is a silver lining. The aptly named Danielle Outlaw is Philadelphia Police Commissioner. Her qualifications consist mainly of being a black woman, but in addition, she used to be Chief of Police in infamously anarchic Portland. Ms. Outlaw was able to promote progress by shoehorning the violence into a politically correct context:

“As many of us began the day celebrating Juneteenth for the first time as a Federally recognized holiday, we again found ourselves lamenting as an otherwise beautiful afternoon had been sullied with gun violence. …

Every act of gun violence is tragic. …

While holiday celebrations will continue throughout the city, our investigators will work tirelessly to bring justice to all of those affected by the scourge of gun violence.”

The guns did it, not the criminal lowlifes police are no longer allowed to keep under control. After the same Democrats who unleashed this chaos by siding with rioters against the police confiscate firearms from law-abiding citizens, all will be well.

I hope you enjoy violence, chaos, and moonbattery more than the barbecues, fireworks, and patriotism that have traditionally marked the Fourth of July, because that is the holiday Juneteenth was fabricated to displace from the calendar. Evanston is a half-step ahead of the rest of the country in this regard. From Illinois:

Celebrate every Fourth of July as if it were the last one to be officially acknowledged, because unless there is a dramatic reversal, it will soon be canceled. Just as losing the Culture War to liberals means trading Adriana Lima for Megan Rapinoe, it means trading the Fourth of July for Juneteenth.

On tips from SafeSpace47, MAS, Bluto, Chris Neilson, Chuck A, JackisBack, and KirklesWorth.

Statues serve as touchstones. They remind us of the shared history that unites us and of the values we respect, and provide role models that inspire us to improve ourselves. Tragically, leftists have denigrated our national heroes, and Black Lives Matter thugs have torn down their statues, often with the tacit approval of local Democrat authorities. New statues will replace them. These will represent the values not of the American people, but of our liberal ruling class. For example, Newark, New Jersey has blazed a trail deeper into our national decline by erecting a 700-pound bronze statue of George Floyd in front of City Hall.

Barks Mayor Ras Baraka:

“Hopefully when people walk by and they see it, and they participate, hopefully it inspires them to become active in the struggles that are happening right here in Newark and right here in New Jersey.”

Given that Floyd’s death was exploited as a pretext for hundreds of race riots that prominently featured looting and arson, the mayor’s message is a warning for any remaining business owners to get out of Newark while other parts of the country remain relatively civilized.

George Floyd was a violent career criminal whose record included robbing a pregnant woman at gunpoint. Because he was resisting arrest when a combination of severe heart disease, Covid, and a massive dose of fentanyl killed him, his death was exploited for a cultural Marxist attack on Caucasians, local law enforcement, our system of justice, and America in general.

Floyd is celebrated for personifying America’s death, just as Columbus and Washington were once celebrated for personifying its birth.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Liberalism is why we can’t have nice things — or at the very least why they can’t be displayed for sale in California, except in locked cases.

From KPIX:

Nearly a dozen thieves working together swarmed into a Louis Vuitton store in Palo Alto, stealing more than $100,000 in handbags in the second such theft at the Stanford Shopping Center in three weeks, police said Wednesday.

The culprits were what are usually described as “youths” or “teens.”

Witnesses were only able to describe the suspects as males and females, possibly in their late teens or early twenties, all wearing face coverings, police said.

They didn’t even need weapons, civilization having essentially collapsed in the San Francisco Bay Area.

No doubt they were only stealing the fancy handbags so as to feed their starving families, as AOC has asserted regarding the tsunami of crime that began after the ascension of violent career criminal George Floyd into the liberal pantheon.

The five vehicles used in the getaway were a gray Lexus sedan, a gray Infinity SUV, a white Audi sedan, a black four-door Hyundai sedan, and a red two-door Honda sedan.

Despite our extravagantly generous welfare state, economic hardship requires them to keep stealing. No self-respecting crusader for justice and equity wants to be seen in a Hyundai or Honda. A certain lifestyle must be sustained.

On May 19, a similar theft happened at a different store at the Stanford Shopping Center, where a group of at least ten suspects stole more than $150,000 in handbags from Neiman Marcus, although police said the vehicles used in that incident were different than the one at the Louis Vuitton store.

The day before,

On May 18 in San Francisco, a group of thieves ransacked a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Union Square, making off with $90,000 in merchandise.

An organizer for Black Lives Matter has informed us that such activities are to be regarded not as theft but as “reparations” owed to those who are oppressed according to liberal doctrine.

Walgreens has been closing stores because it is effectively legal to shoplift in Democrat-dominated California. Thieves are expected to limit themselves to swiping less than $950 worth of merchandise at a time. However, if you allow any crime, you get a lot.

This was the insight behind the Broken Windows approach to police work that allowed Rudy Giuliani to clean up New York City, which has since slipped back into dysfunction thanks to liberal rule. The current War on Police and ever more lenient treatment of criminals puts Broken Windows into reverse by encouraging crime.

On tips from Steve T and Wiggins.

The War on Police on behalf of Black Lives Matter is a war on civilization on behalf of savages. With Democrats dominant nationally, the savages are winning. This does not make work easy for those tasked with keeping the streets safe – even in Florida. When a lone officer responded to a report of gunfire in Jacksonville last week, he was set upon by a mob after he tried to get the crowd to disperse for its own safety:

Note that the officer had a rifle but didn’t use it, and that no one lifted a finger to help him. That makes the scene emblematic of our times.

Brodigan comments at Louder With Crowder:

Hearing pieces of human excrement yell foul things at police officers, threatening the cops’ families as well as the lives of cops themselves, barely fazes me anymore. It’s what you can expect when every Democrat leader from Joe Biden on down has made it clear they will never have the police’s backs.

However, the abuse is not limited to words. Police are assaulted while onlookers record the scene and laugh.

Since this wasn’t a formal Black Lives Matter riot, there could be legal consequences. Jermisha Ramsey has been charged with assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and street fighting. The officer suffered a cut leg in addition to various bruises and scrapes.

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.

Hypocrisy is prominent among the characteristics that make our liberal rulers insufferable. Everything that does not support their agenda is subject to cancelation. Yet they squawk pieties about freedom and choice. For example, the totalitarians at Amazon, who took down Parler out of sheer partisan repression, tell us that the reason they sell “Blue Lives Murder” memorabilia (t-shirts, headscarves, caps, bandannas, etc) is that they want to provide customers “with the widest possible selection” of products.

Coming from the Bezos people, this lie is grotesque. As noted at the Washington Free Beacon,

Amazon has cracked down on other political products, including a “Joe and the Hoe” T-shirt, for violating its “selling guidelines.”

The “Hoe” refers to Kamala Harris, whose only notable qualification, other than being a Woman of Color and as far left as you can go, is her willingness to exchange sexual favors with a man 30 years her senior for political advancement.

The site also banned Ryan T. Anderson’s book When Harry Became Sally because, the platform said, it “frame[d] LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.”

Only a few years ago, no reasonable person would have denied that what is now called “LGBTQ+ identity” is mental illness. Now, products are banned by Amazon for suggesting it. We can only guess what facts might be banned in the future. But calling the police murderers and implying that violence against them is justified won’t be banned, because the people running the company endorse this sentiment.

The looting of Amazon trucks by Black Lives Matter thugs taught them nothing. To be progressive is to be impervious to experience.

The Blaze provides other exceptions to Amazon’s commitment to the widest possible selection:

In February, Amazon pulled a documentary about conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during Black History Month without explanation. And in 2019, the company kowtowed to the progressive Council on American-Islamic Relations and removed a litany of products — including bath mats and doormats — considered offensive to Muslims.

Since September 11, 2001, anything offensive to Muslims offends moonbats too.

The Rebel flag that graces the covers of classic Southern rock albums because it represents the culture and heritage of the South is unavailable at Amazon. But advocates of political violence will have no problem finding Black Lives Matter and Antifa flags.

Amazon, like the rest of the Big Tech world, proves that you do not have to be the government to impose authoritarianism. Selective censorship is tyranny.

On a tip from Varla.

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.

If you can find sports events that it does not disgust you to attend after watching athletes grovel before Marxist black supremacist sociopaths over the past year, you owe it to yourself to boo loudly when these overpaid idiots flip the finger to civilization by kneeling to Black Lives Matter. Paul Joseph Watson makes the case:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.