An institution originally intended to serve as a reservoir for civilization is used instead to destroy it, once it has been subverted by progressives. Higher education is a prime example. The federal government’s Smithsonian Institution is another.

Earlier, the Smithsonian denounced many of the characteristics of a successful society (e.g., self-reliance, cohesive nuclear families, “objective, rational linear thinking,” hard work, personal responsibility, delayed gratification) by associating them with whites, who continue to comprise America’s core population but whom we are expected to hate in accordance with the state religion, Critical Race Theory:

Not content to deprecate and marginalize Caucasians, the Smithsonian is now erasing women:

The Smithsonian is reportedly in the process of creating an American Women’s History Museum, and its director has proclaimed it will take an “inclusive” approach.

That means it will include men as women, thereby canceling the concept of women. Women do not exist in any meaningful sense according to liberal dogma, which is why even a Supreme Court justice is stumped by the question, “What is a woman?”

As you might expect, the women who really are women honored by the Smithsonian will include enemies of American society:

Smithsonian’s website dedicated to its American Women’s History Museum includes an entry dedicated to racial activist and former fugitive Angela Davis.

A forerunner of the Black Lives Matter movement, Angela Davis is a communist black supremacist who armed terrorists.

On tips from Barry A and Franco.

There is a price to be paid for well-to-do liberals placing maniacs in positions of authority. But it is not paid by the likes of George Soros, the sinister billionaire who has installed leftist DAs throughout the country (e.g., Alvin Bragg [Manhattan], George Gascon [Los Angeles], Kim Foxx [Chicago], Larry Krasner [Philadelphia], Chesa Boudin [San Francisco], Kim Gardner [St Louis]). It is paid by people like Janae Edmondson:

Miss Edmondson’s life was ruined by a criminal sociopath allowed to run loose by St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, the same militant moonbat who persecuted Mark and Patricia McCloskey for daring to stand on their own front yard bearing arms to deter a mob of Black Lives Matter vermin (whom Gardner refused to prosecute) from burning down their house.

Some have had enough:

The last straw appears to be the maiming of a 16-year-old volleyball player, Janae Edmondson of Tennessee, who had been looking forward to playing Division II volleyball in college. She had one leg mangled and the other severely damaged after a man freed from jail with pending robbery charges allegedly hit her…

Edmondson was visiting St. Louis with her family for a volleyball tournament. A driver going 20 mph over the limit failed to yield and struck Edmondson in downtown St. Louis around 8:40 p.m. The victim was pinned between two cars and ultimately had both legs amputated.

21-year-old Daniel Riley was reportedly the man behind the wheel of the speeding car. …

Riley was supposed to be under house arrest while out on bond for a 2020 robbery and armed criminal action. He violated his bond at least 50 times, including seven times in February. Gardner failed to put him back in jail.

That is par for the course with Gardner and the rest of the Soros-installed prosecutors, who side with criminals against the police and law-abiding citizens for ideological reasons.

Unsurprisingly,

St. Louis’ homicide rate (per 100,000) skyrocketed from 64.5 in 2019 to 87.2 in 2020 under Gardner’s watch. According to Neighborhood Scout, St. Louis ranks 1 (with 100 being the safest) on the crime index.

Finally, Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is removing Kim Gardner from power:

The AG’s office started the process of filing a petition quo warranto, which is the legal mechanism under state statute that allows the Attorney General to remove a prosecutor who neglects his or her duties. …

“This is about a quantum of evidence that demonstrates her failure to prosecute cases, failure to inform and confer with victims in cases and failure to file new cases that are referred by law enforcement agencies,” Bailey told Fox News Digital in an interview.

Chesa Boudin (the offspring of two terrorists who was raised by two other terrorists) was pried out of power in San Francisco. Gardner’s removal would be another step in the right direction. The rest need to follow.

Then we need to address the source of the problem: the morally degenerate, intellectually depraved, and viciously hostile liberal elitists who select people like Kim Gardner to oversee the destruction of the country they hate.

On tips from Mr. Freemarket and Varla.

Brittney Griner is a black lesbian who plays in the WNBA, where she has refused to stand for the national anthem for leftist reasons. With those credentials, she would never be left to rot in a Russian prison, despite smuggling illegal drugs into the country, no matter how much it cost us to spring her. The price was Viktor Bout, a.k.a. the Merchant of Death:

The one-for-one swap was a surprise given that U.S. officials had for months expressed their determination to bring home both Griner and Paul Whelan, a Michigan corporate security executive jailed in Russia since December 2018 on espionage charges that his family and the U.S. government has said are baseless.

Whelan is just a US Marine and a white guy to boot. So he stays in Russia, as would be the case with you or me or Marc Fogel:

The president made no mention of American Marc Fogel of Oklahoma, a teacher who is also detained in Russia on marijuana-related charges.

As for Bout, described by the Justice Department as one of the world’s most prolific arms dealers,

Bout, whose exploits inspired a Hollywood movie, was serving a 25-year sentence on charges that he conspired to sell tens of millions of dollars in weapons that U.S officials said were to be used against Americans.

The movie reference is to Lord of War, starring Nicholas Cage.

Former DEA Chief of Operations Michael Braun describes Bout as “one of the most dangerous men on the face of the earth”:

Relieving Griner of responsibility for breaking the law in another country will cost lives — very possibly American lives.

Putin could name his price for Griner. He wanted Bout. Despite going out of its way to antagonize Russia, the Biden Regime does not seem to wonder why Bout is seen as so valuable. The idiot Biden has been crowing victoriously.

Stand by for a blast of irony. Just before announcing the release of an infamous arms dealer, Biden demagogued against our right to bear arms at the 10th Annual National Vigil for All Victims of Gun Violence held at Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church in the District of Corruption:

On tips from Varla, Ed McAninch, and KirklesWorth. Hat tips: Right Scoop, Twitchy.

Among the most alarming aspects of today’s radicalized Democratic Party is the framing of political dissent as a security issue:

In a National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin issued on Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced portentously that “the United States remains in a heightened threat environment.” It seems that “lone offenders and small groups motivated by a range of ideological beliefs and/or personal grievances continue to pose a persistent and lethal threat to the Homeland.” Yet while the DHS claims to be tracking terror threats from people with a “range of ideological beliefs,” it is especially concerned “threat actors could exploit several upcoming events to justify or commit acts of violence, including certifications related to the midterm elections” and “the marking of two years since the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.” …

DHS warned that “targets of potential violence” include “the LGBTQI+ community” and “racial and religious minorities,” as well as “government facilities and personnel” and “perceived ideological opponents.” Clearly these “terrorism experts” have in mind the Leftist stereotype of someone who rejects the dominant Leftist ideology…

The legitimate threat of Islamic terrorism is almost completely ignored. The nearly 80,000 Afghan evacuees the Biden Regime imported after surrendering to the Taliban are not even mentioned.

Meanwhile, the agency plans to release Afghan Muslim criminals into the U.S.

Nor is there any mention of the left-wing terrorist groups Black Lives Matter and Antifa, despite their involvement in hundreds of riots in the past few years.

The bottom line:

The ultimate goal is to criminalize political dissent.

On a tip from Blackjack.

They’re making a list and checking it twice. They’re gonna find out who’s naughty or nice. UCLA is creating a database of those suspected of opposing indoctrination in Critical Race Theory, which is our state religion under moonbat rule.

From the Epoch Times:

Faculty at the University of California–Los Angeles (UCLA) School of Law have created a database to identify and record efforts to block critical race theory (CRT) being taught in schools across the country.

The database, called the CRT Forward Tracking Project, allows users to “track attacks on critical race theory” and filter the information as part of an effort to “support anti-racist education, training and research,” according to the school.

“Anti-racist” in this context means racist against Caucasians.

The project was created by UCLA’s Critical Race Studies Program, founded in 2000 as the first law school program in the nation dedicated to critical race theory.

This cataloguing of public resistance to CRT is national in scope. It includes measures enacted at the schoolboard level to stop leftist teachers from brainwashing public school students with the malevolent ideology that emerged into public view during the hundreds of Black Lives Matter riots.

Ratlike authoritarian Merrick Garland has already sicced the FBI on parents who speak out against CRT and LGBT indoctrination at schoolboard meetings. The Biden Regime characterizes them as terrorists so as to justify bringing down the full force of the US government to silence them.

Given the increasing instability of our political system, and the embrace of authoritarianism by liberals, it is not hard to imagine late-night disappearances of those listed as having rejected the fundamental CRT principle that the universe revolves around blacks being oppressed by inherently evil white people.

On a tip from R F.

Prepare for the liberal media to go full nuclear. Roe v. Wade has been overturned at last:

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, a case concerning a Mississippi law that, with few exceptions, bans abortions after 15 weeks. …

Emphasizing that abortion “presents a profound moral question,” Alito’s opinion finds that the Constitution “does not prohibit the citizens of each State from regulating and prohibiting abortion.”

Reasons Alito,

“It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”

Kudos to the sane Supremes for not backing down after leftists tried to intimidate them by leaking the ruling in advance:

[Alito’s] words were unchanged from a draft of this opinion that was leaked to Politico in May.

This leak resulted in threats to the justices that were backed by the Biden Regime, even after an attempt was made on Justice Kavanaugh’s life.

Roe v. Wade gave the Supreme Court the power to legislate by fiat by inventing “rights” out of thin air. Overturning it is a victory not only for the children whose lives will be saved and for basic morality, but for our system of government, which is supposed to be a Constitutional republic.

However, it is a major defeat for liberals, so put some cotton in your ears in preparation for their shrieks of rage.

Whether the threatened riots will materialize on a Black Lives Matter scale remains to be seen, but there has already been leftist violence…

An anarchist group called Jane’s Revenge firebombed at least two pro-life pregnancy centers, claimed responsibility for the vandalism of several more, and made terrorist threats of more violence to come.

…and there will be more.

Expect Democrats to amplify calls to pack the Supreme Court with leftist apparatchiks, effectively abolishing it by rendering it irrelevant.

The road ahead looks rocky, but if Americans have the guts to stand up to liberals the way the Supreme Court has done, the USA will prevail.

On tips from Anonymous, Ed McAninch, and Marty.

While media promotion of Black Lives Matter was in overdrive, authorities mostly stood down as radical leftists rioted about 570 times over a 3-month period. In contrast, those on the right get arrested for allegedly thinking about rioting:

Thirty-one people affiliated with the white nationalist group Patriot Front were arrested near an annual LGBTQ+ event Saturday in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, police said.

The suspects were booked on suspicion of conspiracy to riot, Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said at an afternoon news conference.

Matt Walsh ought to follow up “What Is a Woman?” with “What Is a White Nationalist?” In this case, some of the white nationalists involved are probably FBI agents trying to engineer another Reichstag moment. The January 6 Committee couldn’t preempt prime time forever, and the feds need to prove they can do better than the farcical Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping ploy.

White said police were made aware in recent days that a number of groups planned to disrupt Pride in the Park, an annual event highlighting civil rights struggles for the LGBTQ+ communities.

We are to believe that the privileged identity group atop the Cultural Marxist Pyramid of Power is oppressed. Preserving that narrative has become increasingly difficult as militant LGBT activists bully society into conforming to their grotesque ideology.

Federal law enforcement partners have been in contact with local police on the matter, the chief said…

No doubt.

The Southern Poverty Law Center identifies Patriot Front as a white nationalist “hate” group.

The SPLC also identifies the Family Research Council as a hate group; that’s what inspired LGBT terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins’ foiled mass shooting. It has listed mild-mannered moderate Ben Carson in its “Extremist Files,” and has denounced the blog Jihad Watch — which exists to draw attention to the violent extremism of Islamic radicals — for “violent extremism.”

In the mainstream media, SPLC is regarded as an objective expert source. Keep that in mind before taking anything the media presents at face value.

On a tip from Bluto.

It is shocking that Democrat rhetoric evidently inspired a moonbat named Nicholas John Roske to attempt to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh (and presumably his family). Comparably shocking is that the Democrat-controlled media has barely reported it. More shocking still is that even now Democrats are not backing away from using violence to achieve their objectives.

As noted at Hot Air,

The DOJ has yet to prosecute anyone for protesting near a justice’s home … even though doing so is banned by federal law. And the House still hasn’t acted on a bill to increase security for Supreme Court employees…

The tactic of laying siege to the homes of justices continues.

At last check, Biden had yet to speak publicly about the attempt on Kavanaugh’s life.

Or maybe Biden was referring to Kavanaugh when he said this:

To quote the Great Uniter:

“Every once in a while, something you learn makes you viscerally angry. Like if you had the person in front of you, you’d want to pop them. No, I really mean it.”

Not exactly the rhetoric we need as the country lurches into political instability.

At least Biden is in touch with the Democrat base, which has been itching for violence.

The Daily Wire reports:

A new poll by the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center found that nearly half of young Democrat men support assassinating political figures they consider dangerous to the country or democracy.

Convicted gay rights terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins attacked the offices of the Family Research Council with plans to murder as many people as possible in the name of the LGBT agenda. He was directed there by a Southern Poverty Law Center “hate map.”

There are plenty more violent losers where Roske and Corkins came from.

During the Black Lives Matter riots, leftist thugs caused $billions in damages and took dozens of lives with virtually no legal consequences. This whet their appetite.

The coming violence will be more targeted than mobs of scumbags torching corner stores after looting them in the name of racial justice. The liberal establishment media will continue to participate by whipping dangerous people into a frenzy, then downplaying the consequences.

On tips from Wiggins, TCS III, Varla, Occam’s Stubble, and Anonymous.

We have hit peak moonbattery. Now the backlash can begin. Weather Underground scion Chesa Boudin has been recalled as DA in the world capital of degenerate woke lunacy, San Francisco:

Voters in progressive San Francisco on Tuesday overwhelmingly supported the recall of Chesa Boudin, the city’s radical left-wing district attorney, two years after he was elected on a platform that emphasized reducing the jail population and prioritizing “restorative justice.”

“Restorative justice” is Liberalese for mollycoddling criminals.

Boudin’s platform could be summed up as “F the Police.” This was fashionable as the Black Lives Matter riots raged, but less so now that the media-manufactured mania had died down and people are waking up to the inevitable effects of wokeism, which include rampant crime.

Boudin’s liberal credentials are impeccable. He worked as a translator and advisor for Hugo Chavez, whose ruination of Venezuela has served as the primary template for the Democrat agenda. Born into moonbattery, he is the offspring of Weather Underground terrorists Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert. He was named after cop-killer Joanne Chesimard (aka Assata Shakur), the patron saint of Black Lives Matter, who now resides in communist Cuba.

Because his parents were incarcerated for killing two police officers and a security guard during a robbery, he was raised by two other Weather Underground terrorists, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. These same two terrorists launched the political career of Barack Obama from their Chicago apartment.

Boudin gave voters what they asked for:

He ended cash bail, stopped prosecuting drug-possession cases stemming from “pretextual” traffic stops, stopped using “enhancements” to extend prison sentences for convicted gang members, and stopped prosecuting so-called quality-of-life crimes — things such as prostitution, public camping, public defecation, and open-air drug use. Supporters of the recall say that sent a message that San Francisco was a consequence-free place to engage in low-level crimes, which simply encouraged more crime in the city generally.

By implementing the Broken Windows theory in reverse, Boudin helped make San Francisco into the uninhabitable hellhole it is today.

In 2021, a year that saw nearly 500 people in the city killed by a worsening fentanyl crisis, Boudin’s office didn’t convict a single person of dealing the drug. They chose instead to emphasize diversion programs and lower-level “accessory after the fact” charges, in part to protect immigrant drug dealers from deportation…

As with Biden, his administration has been a case study in applied liberalism.

That even left-wing San Francisco would overwhelmingly vote to oust one of the progressive-prosecutor movement’s leading figures shows just how much the nation’s mood has changed over the past two years as rising crime has plagued big cities across the country.

What are our rulers in the Democrat Party/mainstream media complex learning from this? Not a thing. Intelligencer honked in advance that if Boudin were to be recalled, it would be because San Francisco isn’t liberal after all. These kooks will continue to double down.

This does not necessarily apply to voters, even in San Franfreakshow:

Boudin’s ouster comes less than four months after San Francisco voters recalled three progressive school-board members who were widely condemned for prioritizing social-justice politics…

Those social justice politics included changing the names of 44 schools named after retroactively canceled thought criminals, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and even insufficiently left-wing former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein. Not even being homosexual has spared whites from cancelation by the San Francisco Board of Education on a racial basis, as Seth Brenzel learned. The school board is so politically correct that it canceled the concept of acronyms for being racist.

Let’s see what voters can do about other Soros-backed maniacs in positions like Boudin’s (e.g., George Gascon [Los Angeles] Alvin Bragg [Manhattan], Kim Foxx [Chicago], Larry Krasner [Philadelphia], Kim Gardner [St Louis], and Marilyn Mosby [Baltimore]). At the national level, let’s see what we can do about prying the pernicious Democratic Party from power.

On tips from Occam’s Stubble, Varla, and Dragon’s Lair. Hat tip: Maggie’s Farm.

One of the many ways colleges have of molding the attitudes of students is selectively inviting paid speakers like Jalil Muntaqim (a.k.a. Anthony Bottom). SUNY Brockport bills him as a “political prisoner” because he was jailed after participating in the murder of two police officers as a member of the Black Liberation Army.

The College at Brockport, State University of New York, is hosting an event titled, “History of Black Resistance, U.S. Political Prisoners & Genocide: A Conversation with Jalil Muntaqim” on April 6. “Jalil is author of the seminal work, ‘We Are Our Own Liberators,’” a description of the event states. “He gained his freedom in fall 2019, and currently resides in Rochester, NY. He is a member of Citizens Action Network and People Liberation Program, as well as a grandfather, father, mentor to many, and loving human being.”

Inviting him as a speaker will help this maniac to be a mentor to many more — just what we need in the age of Black Lives Matter.

Ever wonder were all that money earmarked for DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity) goes? Here’s an example:

Muntaqim has been invited to speak under a grant for “Promoting Excellence in Diversity.” Additionally, the convicted cop killer is set to be paid a little over $1,000 for the event, according to the university.

Muntaqim and a fellow BLA goon shot NYPD officers Waverly Jones and Joseph A. Piagentini in the back 1971.

Piagentini pleaded for his life and told the gunmen that he had a wife and children, at which point Muntaqim and his associate took his service pistol and fired several more shots. Piagentini was shot 22 times and died while being transported to a Harlem hospital.

No doubt Muntaqim features that at the top of his résumé, to help him land lucrative speaking gigs.

The Black Liberation Army was a black supremacist organization responsible for the murders at least 10 police officers. Former BLA member Assata Shakur played a role in the murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster in 1973. She escaped from prison and received asylum from Cuba.

Assata Shakur (born Joanne Deborah Byron) is now a goddess in the moonbat pantheon, worshiped by Black Lives Matter movement, college educrats, and the kooks running New York City. It shouldn’t be long before Biden issues her a pardon so that she can come home and make a nice living speaking on college campuses.

Pitching the speech, Brockport does not describe Muntaqim as a terrorist, a cop killer, or even a black supremacist, but as an “NAACP activist” and “political prisoner.”

This is why the death penalty is necessary. Given time, liberals will free the worst of the worst so as to bestow honors and money upon them.

When the university received a little backlash, it predictably hid behind the usual “we believe in freedom of speech” rhetoric. Sure, that’s why next week they are going to invite David Duke.

Muntaqim has expressed no remorse and won’t even apologize to Piagentini’s widow. SUNY Brockton declines to speak to her. Dianne Piagentini isn’t a revered personage like Jalil Muntaqim.

On a tip from Chris Neilson.

Aside from Planned Parenthood, there is no political entity in America as violent as Black Lives Matter, so BLM activist Quintez Brown attempting a political assassination should surprise no one, even if he is a noisy gun control advocate.

The target was Louisville mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg. Via Fox News:

Quintez Brown, 21, was charged with attempted murder and four counts of wanton endangerment after he entered Greenberg’s campaign headquarters in Butchertown and fired multiple shots using a 9mm Glock handgun, police said.

Moonbats not being adept with firearms, no one was hurt.

Greenberg is a Jewish Democrat. As for his accused assailant,

Brown previously worked for the Louisville Courier Journal as an intern and an editorial columnist, according to the newspaper. …

Brown was a prominent activist during the Black Lives Matter and Defund the Police unrest following the May 2020 death of George Floyd. …

Brown was honored by the Obama Foundation’s MBK Rising initiative and was one of only a handful of students in the country to attend the inaugural national gathering of the Obama Foundation’s My Brother’s Keeper Alliance.

“I better my community for the boys that look just like me by changing the narrative around violence, masculinity, and professionalism,” Brown said in a statement still featured on the foundation’s website.

Maybe he would help change the phony liberal establishment narrative around violence, except that the media has predictably responded to the shooting the same way it did to the bloodbath in Waukesha: by ignoring it.

Barks Brown:

“Defunding the police is our first step toward dismantling everything that was rooted in slavery. Because they’re the original slave catchers. When Black people try to liberate themselves and become free, you had the police to stop them and put them back in their place. So defunding the police to me means kind of like funding our revolution by defunding our oppression.”

As if to prove him correct, police arrested him.

No worries. Brown is now out on bail, the same status Darrell Brooks enjoyed when he achieved racial justice by driving an SUV through a Christmas parade. Black Lives Matter and the Louisville Community Bail Fund reportedly posted his bail.

Why would a moonbat shoot a Democrat? Brown’s ruminations on Medium might offer an indication:

The revolutionary consciousness of the masses must understand that the struggle against the negative forces of genocide and fascism will not end at the ballot box of the ruling class. Attempting to get within one of the two major parties has caused our leaders to become co-opted with their interests shunted to the background. They have become expendable.

Communist regimes killed about 100 million of their own citizens during the ideology’s heyday in the 20th century. BLM is almost as rooted in communism as it is in racism. How would you expect BLM activists to treat people who are expendable?

Hat tip: Legal Insurrection.

Moonbats worship the late leftist Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. However, not even the notorious RBG achieved perfect wokeness. Her place in the liberal pantheon was secured in part by whitewashing by information gatekeeper Katie Couric:

Couric selectively edited her 2016 interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg by omitting negative comments the justice made about those who kneel during the national anthem, she admitted in her new memoir.

At the time, everyone but fringe leftists understood that the fading mediocrity Colin Kaepernick behaved contemptibly by indulging in disrespectful antics during the anthem, the Black Lives Matter propaganda blitz that mainstreamed his posturing not having occurred.

Ginsburg told Couric she was opposed to the action, saying those who kneel during the anthem were showing “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life,” according to new reporting by the Daily Mail.

That opinion was left on the cutting room floor. Couric left in Ginsburg’s remark that kneeling athletes are “dumb and disrespectful,” but without letting her explain why.

Looks like Ginsburg tried to walk back her comments anyway, having realized that she had strayed off the liberal reservation:

[T]he day after their sit-down, the head of public affairs for the Supreme Court emailed Couric to say the late justice had “misspoken” and asked that it be removed from the story.

This isn’t the first time Katie Cupcake has employed selective editing on behalf of the party line:

[Stephen] Gutowski, reporting for the Washington Free Beacon at the time, broke the story in 2016 that a Couric documentary edited her interview with pro-gun activists to make them look dumbfounded by one of her questions. The documentary showed them sitting in silence after she asked them about how to prevent terrorists and felons from purchasing guns without background checks, but in reality they immediately answered according to their own audio of the interview.

The liberal news establishment is comprised of ham-fisted propagandists whose job is to prop up the Democrat Party and its radical agenda. This is why so-called journalists do not fear censorship but rather scream for more of it.

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.

Democrats’ foreign policy of bestowing our money upon our Taliban enemies to bribe them into possibly killing fewer Americans also has domestic applications. Starting next month, San Francisco will pay sociopaths to refrain from shooting people.

From the San Francisco Examiner:

San Francisco thinks it may have an answer for its rising gun violence problem: Paying people to not pull the trigger. …

The program, which will launch as a pilot in October, is called the Dream Keeper Fellowship. It’s San Francisco’s latest iteration of a guaranteed-income program that will provide high-risk individuals with $300 a month as a start.

In case $300/month isn’t enough,

Participants will be able to earn up to $200 more a month by hitting milestones in the program, such as landing a job interview, complying with probation or consistently meeting with a mentor.

As we have been learning in Afghanistan, putting liberals in positions of authority has consequences.

It’s being funded in part through the Dream Keeper Initiative, an effort from Mayor London Breed and Supervisor Shamann Walton to divert funding from law enforcement to the Black community.

Race riots bring more than fawning coverage from the media. They also bring cash. Just ask Patrisse Cullors.

“What we are talking about is saying we are going to invest resources in this 25-year-old who has eight previous arrests, who is on parole, who is a proud member of a neighborhood clique and who is not even seeking services,” [National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform Executive Director] Muhammad said.

Muhammad says this is “what you have to do in order to reduce gun violence.” Democrats have to pretend to be doing something to fight the skyrocketing crime they caused with their Black Lives Matter antipolice lunacy. They don’t yet have the political leverage to confiscate firearms from the law-abiding, although that is certainly on the horizon.

If they ever reverse course and start cracking down on violent criminals, it won’t be in San Francisco, where the DA is the openly pro-criminal Chesa Boudin, offspring of Weather Underground terrorists.

On a tip from Chris Neilson.

As Lara Logan has explained, the Afghanistan debacle was deliberate. Even if the demented puppet Biden has no idea what he is doing, his string-pullers do. The question is why they are doing it.

To find the answer, Christopher Skeet looks to Barack Obama, whom Biden served as a witless sidekick. Obama was elected on a platform of openly despising the nation he promised to “fundamentally transform” into a totally different country.

Via American Thinker:

Every time he could, Obama favored strict Islamist regimes over Western-friendly governments. Whenever overseas pro-democracy demonstrators flew American flags, Obama reflexively sided with their oppressors. He removed sanctions from Cuba and Iran and asked for nothing in return. The JCPOA, the Paris Accords, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership were specifically designed to weaken American power behind the flimsy guise of noble causes.

Anti-American Obamunists are among Biden’s puppeteers. Their policy of deliberately undermining America and its allies continues.

We just let the pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong, Cuba, and Iran know that they don’t have our support, other than the occasional week-too-late hashtag. We just let our allies in Taiwan, Ukraine, South Korea, and Israel know that we folded like wet paper to illiterate pedophiles in pickup trucks, so good luck against the million-man professional armies who are busy reassessing the futility of your current ceasefires.

Biden’s handlers have stressed the symbolism of a disorderly retreat from Afghanistan, the 9/11 staging ground strategically located between our three most threatening adversaries, China, Iran, and Russia:

We abandoned Bagram Air Base on July 4, 2021. Biden originally planned to complete the withdraw on September 11th. These aren’t flukes, nor the clockwork stupidity of our government’s well-credentialed experts. These were specifically designed as symbolic humiliations of America, by people who hate America, who are being paid six figure salaries to do so by America.

Biden invited the entire Third World to pour into America and enjoy lavish benefits. Then he opened the border and it remains open, with devastating consequences that have only begun to unfold. This cannot be explained by incompetence, but only by treason. The same is true of Democrats’ unfunded, multi-$trillion frivolous spending spree that will crush the country with debt and inflate our savings to worthlessness. The same is true of Afghanistan.

The left, including its swamp bureaucrats who administer our wars, has no qualms with what happened in Kabul. They support Biden’s grotesque withdraw not in spite of its consequences for America, but because of them.

Local police and the military have been among the last institutions to hold out against leftist subversion. They remain pillars of Americanism and resistance to the progressive agenda. Democrats and their media have employed Black Lives Matter as a sledgehammer to smash the police. The military is being eaten from within by tapeworms like Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley. Like demonized and defunded local police, the armed forces are undergoing strategic demoralization, so as make it impossible to obtain quality recruits:

What young, idealistic American would enlist to defend a country that doesn’t let them win wars, forces them to retreat from 7th century quadrupeds, all the while having one’s own patriotism questioned and slandered by woke Pentagon careerists who blather about “white rage” and who remove Mahan and Clausewitz from the reading lists in favor of Ibram X. Kendi?

Not merely losing in Afghanistan but running away in disgrace, abandoning thousands of Americans as well as vast stores of weapons in the hands of terrorists sworn to our destruction, serves well to advance an Obama-style foreign policy by making it clear that the USA cannot be counted on to defend its allies from the aggression of tyrants.

Amplified across the world, the message of the left is: If America will sell you out to the Taliban, they won’t even think about lifting a finger to the Iranians and North Koreans, much less the Chinese and Russians.

It isn’t only the Taiwanese and Ukrainians who will suffer:

Our kids’ grandkids will be fighting the wars that result from this and will likely do it alone. Far from being a tragedy, our abandonment of Afghanistan was one of the left’s biggest foreign policy successes.

That may be overoptimistic. At the current pace of the decline Democrats are imposing, America won’t last that many generations.

Abraham Lincoln had it right:

On a tip from ABC of the ANC.