Black Lives Matter was never about winning people over voluntarily through rational arguments. BLM is about using the threat of violence or ostracization to intimidate the weak into genuflecting before it.

Some threats from militant moonbats are highly credible; damage caused by their “mostly peaceful protests” has resulted in $2 billion worth of insurance claims. Other threats are harder to take seriously, but just as illustrative of the mentality regular Americans are up against:

On a tip from DEMOCRACY DIES IN DARKNESS.

Do you have to be Caucasian to love America? The Cultural Marxists controlling the media, schools, and Democratic Party would have you think so. But it turns out not to be true, as demonstrated by the inspiring BLEXIT Back the Blue march in DC Saturday that drew thousands participants.

Candace Owens is right to take pride in the movement she founded:

Singing the Star-Spangled Banner and chanting U-S-A could not contrast more sharply with the “mostly peaceful” Black Lives Matter tradition of looting, arson, spray-painting obscenities on every available surface, and destroying statues of great historical figures.

Progressives cannot make the case that riots and rage are more constructive than unity in patriotism. So they use their control of the media either to ignore this event into oblivion, or to discredit it by emphasizing that BLEXIT paid some travel expenses, as if that were not being done for BLM/Antifa rioters throughout the country. Moonbats piled on with attacks that would be regarded as shockingly racist if they came from conservatives. Candace Owens responds:

On a tip from Varla.

The epidemic of leftist rioting is no longer just an urban problem. The mob demands that police be prosecuted for shooting blacks, regardless of the circumstances. When Officer Joseph Mensah was not prosecuted for shooting Alvin Cole, who had opened fire on the police, it had a pretext to riot, even in the Milwaukee suburb Wauwatosa (pop. 48,000).

The Blaze reports:

Wauwatosa police warned local residents to “shelter in their homes, lock their doors, and move away from windows.” Police fired tear gas outside homes in an effort to disperse the crowd.

Pandering to the brownshirts proved to be not only contemptible but useless:

[A] resident attempted to reason with the mob that ruined his yard by telling them that there are many locals who are Democrats that support Black Lives Matter. The man told protesters, “Do you have any idea how many Democrats, how many MPS teachers, union members, other people that support you live on this street?”

Progressives made their bed and are welcome to sleep in it. The problem is, patriots have to sleep in it too.

The BLM mob smashed store windows. A Speedway gas station convenience store was looted.

Black Lives Matter militants consider looting to be “reparation.” Their sociopathic behavior is justified by the ideology of our ruling class.

One man is heard screaming at the protesters, “Tear up the white folks’ s**t!” Even a business with a large Black Lives Matter sign was not spared from being damaged.

The savages made a point of demonstrating that they have no fear of authorities, having become accustomed to local Democrat officials effectively taking their side:

Vandals spray-painted Black Lives Matter on a S.W.A.T. BearCat and a bank.

Officer Joseph Mensah is black, by the way. But we all knew the “racist police” narrative was BS anyway.

Political pressure to prosecute police officers for defending themselves must be intense. The effect on public safety is obvious. Consequently, areas governed by Democrats are to be avoided whenever possible for the sake of personal safety.

If the Harris/Biden ticket prevails, the whole country will fall under Democrat rule. At least 13 Biden staffers have donated money to bail out rioters so they can carry on with their violent activities. De facto presidential candidate Harris has raised money for this cause. She has praised rioters as “the heroes of our time” and says the riots need to continue regardless of who wins the election.

Rioting is a form of political terror. It is America’s future under Democrat rule. Already, the suburbs are not safe. Soon, nowhere will be safe.

On a tip from Rapinhoe.

Considering the violent tactics and demented rhetoric associated with Black Lives Matter, it should surprise no one that its founders Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and Opel Tometi are associated with more conventional communists and terrorists.

Most are familiar with Cullors’ self-description as a trained Marxist. But there’s more:

Tometi and Garza are involved with a German revolutionary organization called Rosa Luxembourg Stiftung, which was established by former East German communist leaders to build a new wave of international socialist revolutions.

Patrisse Cullors was mentored by Maoist communist Eric Mann of the infamous Weathermen terrorists and the League of Revolutionary Struggle. All three confounders are connected with the socialist organization Liberation Road. Other connections link them with the Chinese communist government and the terror-prone Palestinian revolutionary movement.

This video from Choose Freedom offers an overview:

True enough, when cowards, fools, and moonbats kneel to Black Lives Matter, they are kneeling to communism and terrorism. Our country is under attack by unadulterated evil.

Hat tip: Liberty Daily.

Finally, some good news regarding Black Lives Matter. Not all of the $zillions that corporations, celebrities, and left-leaning fools have donated to this conspicuously pernicious cause goes to facilitating riots or to the Democratic Party. Some of it flows relatively harmlessly into graft.

Via Fox News:

The FBI has arrested the founder of a Black Lives Matter group in Atlanta on fraud and money laundering charges.

Sir Maejor Page, 32, was accused Friday of misappropriating $200,000 in donations he solicited through Facebook on behalf of Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, Fox 5 Atlanta reported Friday.

The name is as fake as the ideology. His real name is Tyree Conyers-Page.

Page founded Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta in 2016 and this year took in more than $466,000 in donations in June, July and August…

The FBI in Toledo said Page pledged to use those donations “for George Floyd” but instead used the money make purchases related to food, dining, entertainment, clothing, furniture, a home security system, tailored suits and accessories.

He also bought himself a house in Toledo.

In Page’s defense, George Floyd doesn’t need the money anyway. He has his golden casket, what else can he use?

Fox 5 reported in 2016 that Page became a familiar face at Black Lives Matter marches in Atlanta to protest fatal police shootings.

He was part of a group of Black activists who met with then-Atlanta mayor Kasim Reed to demand changes in police training and tactics.

If criminals want police tactics changed, those tactics are probably good the way they are.

Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta is not to be mistaken for Page’s previous outfit, Black Lives Matter of Atlanta, and is apparently not recognized as a national chapter by the national organization. But then, anybody can start up a Facebook page, participate in some riots, and validly claim to be part of the wider movement. It follows the al Qaeda decentralization pattern that has worked so well for other terrorists.

There will be plenty more Black Lives Matter arrests if it occurs to authorities that not only fraud but also rioting and insurrection are against the law.

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It is no longer safe to drive a car down the street in cities governed by Democrats. Even if you manage to squeeze through the mobs of rioters, they may chase you down and attack you, smashing in your windshield with a skateboard. The incident below occurred last night in Los Angeles, the same town where Reginald Denny was dragged out of his truck by similar savages and had his head bashed in with a cinderblock during the Rodney King riots. This time the pretext for rioting was Breonna Taylor:

Anyone surprised to see the story end with the innocent victim getting handcuffed by police? Meanwhile, the odds of consequences for the criminals are minimal, which is why they behave this way.

Driving a politically correct Prius didn’t do the driver much good. His bumper might have been covered in Defund the Police and COEXIST stickers; it would not have mattered.

As noted at Big League Politics, this is hardly the first time the “mostly peaceful protesters” have attacked a motorist:

Violent BLM and ANTIFA rioters have shot up to six people for driving through highways and roads they attempt to block off.

The United States is succumbing to savagery. It is turning into Somalia. Attempting to placate the bullies by validating their bogus ideology with duckspeak about racial injustice has only encouraged them to push the envelope ever further.

Next time, we may see the motorist dragged out of his car and beaten to death, as easily might have happened here if he hadn’t managed to escape. That is America’s future if we do not stand up to the mob and its backers, namely the liberal establishment media and the Democratic Party.

On a tip from Ellen O.

Thanks to fellow-traveling local authorities of the liberal persuasion, the Marxist insurgents of Black Lives Matter effectively rule the streets in many cities. This means that while we often can’t eat indoors thanks to COVID-19 restrictions, we can’t eat outdoors either without the risk of being assailed by leftist bullies.

We saw it happen in Rochester. We saw it happen in Pittsburgh. Here it happens in St Petersburg:

The more the media tries to spin the “mostly peaceful protesters” as the good guys, the more cognitive dissonance will be created. In the end, it may get through to one and all not only that Black Lives Matter militants are very much the bad guys, but that the left-wing propagandists running the media are too.

By now everyone should at least have a new appreciation for why we need police.

On a tip from Rapinhoe.

There is follow-up on the case of Greg Patton, the USC Marshall School of Business professor who was placed in purgatory after using the Chinese term “nèi ge,” which militant crybullies say sounds like the forbidden n-word. Patton used the word in order to be inclusive of international students.

At last word, educrats have admitted to no error for their treatment of Patton. The dean denounced him; he remains under suspension, and it is unclear whether he will ever be reinstated. Even the Atlantic is appalled at the injustice, and his fellow faculty are scared that they might be next to get frog-marched to the guillotine through no fault of their own.

Recent grads are also alarmed:

Ninety-four recent graduates of the MBA program, purporting to represent “more than a dozen nationalities and ethnicities,” wrote that “a few of us, but many of our parents, lived through mainland China’s Cultural Revolution. This current incident, and Marshall’s response so far, seem disturbingly similar to prevalent behavior in China at that time—spurious accusations against innocent people, which escalated into institutional insanity.”

The insanity began when Patton promptly apologized to the crybullies for accidently providing them with a pretext to be offended. Saying “I’m sorry” to the belligerently oppressed puts the smell of blood in the water.

The offended students went into lynch mob mode, shrieking that their “mental health has been affected” by the “unwelcome environment” created by Patton having said a Chinese word that has nothing to do with race. They wrote,

“In light of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and the recent and continued collective protests and social awakening across the nation, we cannot let this stand.”

That is, they demanded Patton be offered up to them as a sacrifice or else. After hundreds upon hundreds of Black Lives Matter riots, everyone knows what “or else” means.

The climate of terror that these thugs have been allowed to create has had a predictable effect on the erstwhile open marketplace of ideas:

Last Monday, the faculty council at the business school discussed the results of an anonymous survey on the Patton incident that 105 faculty members answered. According to a transcript I obtained, a member of the council described “an overwhelming sense of vulnerability, worry, insecurity, fear and anxiety” among faculty who worry that they could be “cancelled” anytime due to a misunderstanding. The faculty feel “anger, disappointment, betrayal, and outrage” at Patton’s treatment. … [F]aculty members mentioned that “given the atmosphere of fear and perceived lack of support, they think it is too risky for them to continue discussing certain topics with students. This includes topics related to diversity and inclusion, but it also includes such topics as politics and international relations.”

The crisis is hardly limited to USC:

[A]dministrators all over the country are bending over backward to appease umbrage-taking students in the name of inclusion, and more than a few academics have found themselves under serious investigation for flimsy reasons. “Academics write to me with great frequency to share their anxieties,” my colleague John McWhorter, a Columbia professor, wrote earlier this month. “In a three-week period early this summer, I counted some 150 of these messages. And what they reveal is a very rational culture of fear among those who dissent, even slightly, with the tenets of the woke left.”

A mob of bullies not bright enough to belong in college now dictates what can and cannot be said in academia. What happens in the Ivory Tower today will happen to the rest of us soon absent pushback.

On a tip from Adam.

Diversity may be a strength in some respects, but in others it is clearly a weakness. Our country’s worst enemies have exploited this weakness in an ongoing attempt to bring down the American system and destroy the American way of life, so that the Land of the Free might be replaced with a socialist slave state.

The self-described “trained Marxists” of Black Lives Matter epitomize this cultural Marxist strategy, but they did not initiate it. The campaign to use political correctness to bring down America on behalf of total government (a.k.a. communism) has been progressing for generations. G. Edward Griffin outlined the BLM plan back in 1969:

This remark is especially applicable to the year 2020: “Nothing can be quite so damaging to police morale and efficiency as converting every arrest into a trial of the policeman instead of the criminal.”

Why would proponents of total government want to destroy the police as an institution? They don’t. They want to destroy local police, who are a brake against centralized tyranny. You don’t see mostly peaceful protesters throwing Molotov cocktails at their allies in the FBI:

More G. Edward Griffin, who provided a more accurate analysis of 2020 politics in 1969 than anything currently on offer from the mainstream media:

Wikipedia dismisses Griffin as a “conspiracy theorist.” Sometimes conspiracies turn out to be real.

On tips from Lyle and Blackjack. Hat tip: Frontpage Mag.

According to Black Lives Matter activist Charity Sadé, blacks must be allowed to shoplift at will. Any store manager who calls the police on them is putting their lives at risk, and must be punished by the mob, as Sadé appeared to have in mind when she videotaped and demanded the name of a Washington, DC CVS pharmacy manager who violated her no-police policy.

American society will become dysfunctional if people sympathetic to this woman’s ideology secure control of the federal government in November:

The Blaze has background on the shrieking wokescold:

On Thursday, the Twitter account @CharinDC uploaded a video of her scolding a manager of a Washington, D.C., CVS store. The Twitter account has a bio supporting the Movement for Black Lives, or M4BL, organization and calls for police to be abolished. The account, which reportedly belongs to Charity Sade, claims she is an abolitionist, activist, writer, and comedian. She also included her pronouns in the bio. Her alleged website says, “coming soon,” and has a background that states: “Black Lives Matter.”

The manager didn’t even press charges; he just didn’t want the thieves back in his store.

PJ Media reports his response when she repeatedly demanded his name:

“No one’s gonna tell you my name when you’re sitting here videotaping us so that you can try to elicit some sort of violence against me,” he replied.

Yet we are asked to believe that it is the shoplifters whose lives were threatened by the presence of police. Meanwhile,

“They got to walk away when one of them had a warrant and could have been arrested and the cops still let him go,” the manager said.

Then the Black Lives Matter mob showed up to terrorize the store as an example to others who might dare call the police on criminals of color:

On tips from Varla, Greg O, and Rapinhoe.

The 2020 epidemic of riots didn’t come out of nowhere. This Paul Joseph Watson video about Black Lives Matter is largely up to date — despite being made 4 years and many hundreds of riots ago. The video reminds us that BLM has been based on malevolent lies from the very beginning, that it is a staged production of the liberal establishment, and that it does blacks no favors:

On a tip from KirklesWorth.

Now that police have been marginalized and control of the streets has been turned over to leftist mobs, patriots must keep a low profile. If Black Lives Matter shock troops see something they don’t like — say a Trump sign or American flag — they are likely to lay siege to your home.

Maybe they will just harass you by keeping you awake all night. Maybe they will vandalize your property. Maybe they will terrorize you and your family with threats. Maybe they will set your house on fire, as they have done to police precincts multiple times in recent months. In the absence of law and order, there is no guessing what they might do.

As we learned in St Louis, local government in the sort of places where Black Lives Matter flourishes may come down hard on those who show a weapon in defense of their homes. Milwaukee confirmed it Tuesday night.

Leftist activist Vaun L. Mayes designated a local homeowner as a racist. The case against him appears to consist of displaying the American flag, displaying a Trump flag, and allegedly using the forbidden n-word. As punishment, Mayes community-organized a siege of his house.

The BLM shock troops had a high old time:

They set up chairs, tables, barbecue equipment, and music. They waved Black Lives Matter flags, wore Black Lives Matter shirts, and placed a large Black Lives Matter fist in front of the house. There were black people and white people protesting — and several children were in the mix, dancing and joining in the demonstration.

As night fell things got intense. Protesters aimed lights at the man’s home and called out to him on a megaphone …

After the presumably terrified homeowner appeared in a window holding a firearm, Milwaukee suddenly had police again; they arrived to drag him off in handcuffs on charges including “disorderly conduct while armed” — i.e., for trying to frighten the bullies who were on his property harassing him.

In East Germany, if you didn’t like a neighbor, you could make a quiet call to the Stasi and he would disappear in the middle of the night. The USA under moonbat rule takes a more festive approach.

On tips from Steve B, Chuck A, and Varla. Hat tip: Post Millennial.

We know where the liberal establishment–endorsed Black Lives Matter mob stands on America, on Western Civilization, on white people, on property rights, on law enforcement, on national sovereignty, on the family, on basic civility… Let’s confirm their stance on Christianity.

Here, BLM protesters in Charlotte clarify the position by chanting, “F*** your Jesus!”

Race is only a tool, a crowbar leftists are using to pry the country apart. The issue is never the issue; the issue is always the revolution. If the revolution succeeds, Christianity will be forced underground.

On a tip from seaoh.

If Cuties didn’t persuade you to cancel your Netflix subscription, maybe this will do the trick. Meghan Markle has pitched the infamously far-left company a new concept allowing her to cash in both on her connection to British royalty and on the Black Lives Matter phenomenon that has reduced parts of major American cities to smoking ruins.

Via Mirror Online:

Meghan’s proposed movie is about Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, who is said to have “hugely inspired’ the duchess.

If it gets the green light it will be part of a £120million deal she and Prince Harry signed with the streaming giant.

The price of celebrity moonbattery has gone up since Netflix threw $50 million or maybe $65 million at the Obamas.

A source said: “Meghan has been blown away by the incredible work Patrisse has done. She thinks her story needs to be told – and she would love to be the one to make it.”

It’s all part of the plan for Meghan and her prince. Via Breitbart:

After announcing that the couple would be stepping aside from their official royal duties — though retaining their honorary titles Duke and Duchess of Sussex — Prince Harry and Meghan Markle moved to Los Angeles, where they reportedly intend to focus on activism and “leading the movement” of young people into woke politics.

By starting the Black Lives Matter movement that is tearing the country apart, Patrisse Cullors has done as much damage to the USA as anyone alive. She describes herself as a “trained Marxist.” Some of her training was provided by Eric Mann of the domestic terror group Weather Underground, who mentored her for over a decade. Her deranged and corrosive ideology is explicitly anti-white, anti-West, anti-family, and pro-communist.

Cullors describes the Labor/Community Strategy Center as her foundation. This outfit epitomizes the most dangerous extremes of leftist ideology. Also from Breitbart:

The center teaches and studies the history of the “Indigenous rebellions against the initial European genocidal invasions,” the “Great Slave Haitian Revolution of the 1790s,” and the “Great Slave Rebellions that won the U.S. civil war for the racist north.”

The Haitian Revolution prominently featured genocide against whites. Even whites who supported the black uprising were systematically exterminated. That’s why you won’t find anyone of French ancestry in that former French colony.

The center also expresses its appreciation for the work of the U.S. Communist Party, “especially Black communists,” as well as its support for “the great work of the Black Panther Party, the American Indian Movement, Young Lords, Brown Berets, and the great revolutionary rainbow experiments of the 1970s,” while flaunting its roots in the new communist movement.

Patrisse Cullors personifies the evil that is destroying our country from within. Evil is chic these days. Meghan Markle knows how to make a buck on it.

On a tip from Henry B.