When it comes to the identity group atop the cultural Marxist hierarchy of faux oppressedness, membership has its privileges. These can include escaping prison time others would have to serve:

A former Seattle tech worker convicted of several charges related to a massive hack of Capital One bank and other companies in 2019 was sentenced Tuesday to time served and five years of probation.

The time served was just a few months.

U.S. District Judge Robert S. Lasnik said sentencing former Amazon software engineer Paige Thompson to time in prison would have been particularly difficult on her [sic] “because of her [sic] mental health and transgender status,” the Department of Justice said in a statement.

Prosecutors had asked for 7 years. No doubt they would have gotten it, were Paige a normal person. But since he goes around in women’s clothes, it would be transphobic to hold him accountable for his criminal behavior.

Thompson, 37, obtained the personal information of over 100 million people — a data breach that prompted Capital One to reach a $190 million settlement with affected customers.

The Treasury Department fined the company $80 million for failing to protect the data.

That’s a lot of damage. But prison might be stressful for a sensitive guy like Paige.

Gasps US Attorney Nick Brown,

“This is not what justice looks like.”

On the contrary, it is what moonbattery looks like.

On a tip from Wiggins.

Corporate America panders obsequiously to the leftist crocodile, each company hoping that by appeasement it will get eaten last. This contemptible strategy has failed once again. Starbucks is as cloyingly self-righteous about its moonbat politics as any corporation, even allowing itself to be bullied into turning its restrooms in public toilets/drug dens. Stores have predictably become too dangerous to operate. Sixteen will close; more will no doubt follow.

CEO Howard Schultz blames politicians. As a Democrat donor, he is in no position to cast stones:

“I must say, in my view at the local, state and federal level, these governments across the country and leaders, mayors and governors, city councils have abdicated their responsibility in fighting crime and addressing mental health,” Schultz said in a video posted on Twitter.

The problem is specific to Democrat-governed localities. The store closures are in Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, Philadelphia, and Washington.

All four states and the District are run by Democrats — Jay Inslee in Washington, Gavin Newsom in California, Kate Brown in Oregon, Tom Wolf in Pennsylvania, and Muriel Bowser in D.C.

Starbucks has made corporate policy of promoting Black Lives Matter moonbattery, and consequently does not deserve to partake of the blessings of law & order — that is, of civilization.

Schultz calls Starbucks “a window into America.” From across the ocean, people look through that window at America disintegrating under moonbat domination and recoil in horror:

On tips from Blackjack and KirklesWorth.

What goes around comes around. The chaos resulting from an ineptly run, liberal-dominated judicial system that does not keep criminals incarcerated has come around to bite the behind of ultraleft congresscritter Pramila Jayapal:

The Seattle man who was arrested on Saturday for making threats against Washington Representative Pramila Jayapal was released Wednesday, July 14 after King County Prosecutors did not file charging documents in time to hold him.

The guy stood armed in the middle of the street by her house.

Neighbors said he threatened to kill her. He was yelling something to the effect of “go back to India, I’m going to kill you.”

The judge failed to issue a protection order. The perp is apparently out on bail.

Jayapal can rest assured that he could still be in big trouble, even if he is back in custody before making good on any threats. He faces felony hate crime charges. If you are going to harass someone, make sure it is not a Woman of Color.

On a tip from Dennis G.

Once Boy Scouts of America was a wholesome pillar of a healthy society. That’s why leftists had to destroy it.

LGBT militants bullied their way in. Spineless BSA bureaucrats were too terrified of being called homophobes even to defend children. Child sexual abuse suits predictably reduced the organization to bankruptcy. Membership went into a nose dive. Here’s what’s left of the Boys Scouts now:

The same parade featured adults cavorting fully naked in front of kids.

Formerly, the Boy Scouts instilled patriotism. Scouts are taught differently now. As Not the Bee notes,

The Boy Scouts of America now carry LGBT flags at the same height, or even higher, than the Stars & Stripes.

Before long Old Glory will be phased out completely in favor of the flag of their conquerors.

Anything the left is allowed to infiltrate, it will subvert, pervert, render disgusting, and destroy. For examples, look in any direction.

Giving even another millimeter to moonbats is not an option.

On tips from Franco and Mr. Freemarket.

In the Roe v. Wade aftermath, it is open season on good people, who are physically attacked explicitly for being good.

For example:

One of the more notable attacks (among many) took place at the Life Choices Christian crisis center for pregnant women in Longmont, Colorado. When police and firefighters arrived at the center after three o’clock in the morning, the building was already ablaze. The graffiti we’ve come to expect in these attacks was on display, proclaiming the usual messages pushed by Jane Sent Us.

The media participates by keeping reporting on this terror campaign to a minimum.

No injuries were reported that time, but it isn’t only property tolerant liberals target for violence:

A Seattle street preacher found himself in a maelstrom of hate on Friday, according to multiple social media posts that showed the man lying on the pavement and his Bibles torn to shreds.

Black-clad gangs of what appeared to be antifa agitators targeted the preacher as violence erupted in the aftermath of the Supreme Court overturning the Roe v. Wade ruling that had legalized abortion nationwide.

Not since the Roman Empire before Constantine was it this dangerous to be a Christian:

This is not only about the right to life, or about whether the Constitution says what it says as opposed to whatever leftists choose to pretend that it says. Good and evil have never been in starker opposition.

On tips from gregtuco and TCS III.

This is a terrible time for patriotic Americans who hate watching their country die a disgraceful death by moonbattery, but a great time to be a lowlife with mental problems. In woke Seattle, a homeless career criminal named Alexander Jay will be paid $250 per day for having pushed a 62-year-old nurse down the stairs:

Jay, 40, was arrested on March 3, a day after the attack at the Chinatown-International District light rail station at 5th Avenue South and South Jackson Street, Fox News Digital previously reported.

Jay made another contribution to society that day:

Jay was also accused of stabbing a woman 10 times at a bus stop that same day…

As for being held accountable for his actions,

He went on trial in April, but a judge deemed him incompetent and ordered him to spend three months at an inpatient facility, according to the report.

However, taxpayers well be held plenty accountable:

King County Superior Court Judge Johanna Bender found the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) in contempt of court for failing to get Jay treatment…

Jay’s $250/day bonanza accrues retroactively from May 9 and will continue until healthcare bureaucrats admit him for the treatment he gets in lieu of punishment. DSHS says he won’t get in before mid-August.

Whether this treatment will do any good is doubtful, especially considering Jay is likely to be even further out of his skull on drugs. What else would he spend the money on?

Jay has nearly two dozen prior convictions in Washington dating back to 2000, according to prosecutors.

By the time they go through with the treatment charade, Jay will likely have killed someone.

In the video below, Jay demonstrates how to secure a comfy income without working under moonbat rule:

On a tip from Varla.

The states of Washington and Oregon were part of America once. Then California established colonies in Seattle and Portland. The results are personified by crazed leftist governors Jay Inslee and Kate Brown.

Flaky liberalism has made California so unlivable that now we see this:

Maybe this time they aren’t colonists. Maybe the majority of former Californians have learned the hard way that moonbattery is not an option, and they will help defend what is left of our country against it.

Otherwise, Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases should study this graphic to learn how a deadly pandemic spreads.

On a tip from Occam’s Stubble.

Our moonbat rulers have race hate to spare, even after pouring all they can on Caucasians. Asians tend to be successful; therefore, they have privilege. Therefore, they too deserve to be denounced for their accomplishments. Ever at the vanguard, the New York Times sounds the alarm on Asians being “vividly overrepresented” in competitive figure skating:

No one is going to sound any alarms about blacks being overrepresented in the NBA or NFL (74% and 70%, respectively, comparable to their representation in advertising, despite making up only 13% of the population). That’s because our ruling class adores blacks. It does not adore Asians. Try being Asian and getting into Harvard.

According to our state religion, critical race theory, the success of Asians makes them guilty of whiteness. The same applies to Jews, which is why Whoopi Goldberg informed her herd of disciples that the Holocaust had nothing to do with race hate but was just whites killing each other off.

The prejudices of our ruling class filter down through the media to the streets, where they are expressed more crudely:

Never mind Seattle. Under liberal rule, this is what our whole country is becoming.

The victim was a Chinese woman. The alleged attacker was this guy. There has been an epidemic of black on Asian street violence, which the media has characteristically attempted to blame on whites.

On tips from Mr. Freemarket and JackisBack.

Washington State — or more specifically, Seattle — provides two dots that shouldn’t be hard to connect.

Dot 1:

Senate Democrats in Washington state have once again passed a bill that creates a pathway to early release for a variety of incarcerated people serving long sentences or even life without parole, including those sentenced for aggravated murder and murder in the first degree.

King County (i.e., Seattle) Prosecuting Attorney Manka Dhingra sponsored the bill. According to Republican State Senator Judy Warnick, 196 murderers may be released in the next 5 years.

The bill passed along party lines 28-19-2.

The bill now moves to the House…

Democrats outnumber Republicans in the House 57 to 41. Leftist Governor Jay Inslee can look forward to signing the bill into law.

Dot 2:

The Seattle Police Department released its annual crime report for 2021 on Friday, detailing across-the-board increases in rates of crimes across all major categories.

According to the report, overall crime increased by 10% from 2020 to 2021; violent crime increased by 20%, while property crime went up 9%.

Thank the Black Lives Matter/Antifa riots and the liberal War on Police.

SPD highlighted Seattle’s violent crime rate as a primary concern, after reaching “a 14-year high in 2021.” That was driven by marked increases in aggravated assaults (up 24% year-over-year) and robberies (up 18%).

Consistent with recent county-level reporting, shootings and “shots-fired events” increased in Seattle over the last year as well, rising by 40% year-over-year, and by 86% from 2019.

Democrats zero in on the gun violence so as to exploit it as a pretext to disarm law-abiding citizens, rendering them still more vulnerable to the criminals Democrats enable.

It isn’t just a matter of letting dangerous criminals roam free instead of keeping them locked up. A signal has been sent loudly and repeatedly that ruling Democrats are on the side of criminals, so it’s party time.

On tips from DCGere.

Vicious hostility toward Caucasians, property rights, and the police is only the beginning of the malice from Black Lives Matter, the social justice group most beloved by the liberal establishment. During the 2020 epidemic of BLM riots, these radicals pulled from their website their policy of fundamentally transforming society by abolishing the family, because even at a time when the media cheered on looting and arson, this was deemed better kept on the down low. Now this agenda item is back in the open, as BLM activists work with the progressives running schools to indoctrinate children as young as kindergarten during the Week of Action:

The activist-driven curriculum for the Week of Action, which kicked off Monday, is based off the 13 “Black Lives Matter Guiding Principles.” Those principles include a commitment to restorative justice, being transgender affirming and queer affirming, creating space for black families that is “free from patriarchal practices,” and “the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics and a return to the ‘collective village’ that takes care of each other.”

Depraved variants of critical theory created by the gibbering lunatics who infest academia are stripped down to child-friendly versions suitable for inculcation.

The Week of Action also includes a list of four national demands: end zero-tolerance discipline policies; mandate black history and ethnic studies; hire more black teachers; and fund counselors, not cops, according to a “starter kit” on the Black Lives Matter at School website.

No doubt kids will be encouraged to agitate on behalf of these demands. Abolishing disciplinary policies is sure to appeal to youths with behavioral problems who prevent others from learning in a secure environment.

From the starter kit:

“Everyone gets to choose if they are a girl or a boy or both or neither or something else, and no one else gets to choose for them.”

Children might demand to be regarded as a cat — or a walrus.

It seemed that even little kids understand there are fundamental differences between boys and girls. Yet the social engineers driving the phenomenon of transsexual children have met with alarming success, derailing many young minds.

Other aspects of BLM ideology are no less harmful. The nuclear family is downgraded to the level of other living arrangements. After all, “there are lots of different kinds of families.”

This pernicious indoctrination will be inflicted throughout the country. In addition to local teachers unions in places like NYC, Chicago, and Seattle, Black Lives Matter at School is endorsed by the National Education Association.

On a tip from Varla.

Lloyd Austin — Supreme Overseer of the moonbattization of the US military — has been so neurotically cautious about Covid that he embarrassingly goes out to meet the world wearing both a mask and a face shield:

Austin gets the best healthcare in the world. He is vaxxed and boosted. Yet he has come down with Covid.

Currently, he is “experiencing mild symptoms while quarantining at home.”

It is unclear whether Austin has learned much from the experience.

“The vaccines work and will remain a military medical requirement for our workforce. I continue to encourage everyone eligible for a booster shot to get one. This remains a readiness issue,” he said.

But we can learn something: If Big Government can’t protect Lloyd Austin from Covid, it can’t protect anyone and ought to just leave us alone.

On a tip from Anonymous.

It is as if they deliberately flush away our money in the most arrogantly wasteful manner possible. Judicial Watch reports:

[T]he federal government is dedicating $1.5 million to assist police in El Salvador with challenges and stress created by COVID-19. The goal is to help the Central American nation’s 26,966-member National Civil Police (PNC) asses its role and capacities during a crisis and efficiently provide training to manage a public health emergency like the pandemic. “The training will particularly focus on public health orders, personal and workplace safety measures, education in regards to transmission and proper treatment, and management of operational continuity,” according to a grant announcement made public this month.

That $1.5 million comes out of our pockets, mostly through inflation.

El Salvador isn’t the only backwater to win a free jackpot as our moonbat rulers fling our money to the four winds:

That includes $200,000 to advance “gender equality” in Costa Rica’s police forces by hiring more female cops.

There’s more:

A few months ago a Clinton community policing program received $33 million from the government to advance a nationwide effort that includes tolerance, diversity, and anti-bias training as well as crisis intervention teams and de-escalation training.

The flaky program was designed by Bill Clinton to support “creative” alternatives to normal policing.

Meanwhile, back home,

In the last year more than a dozen cities slashed police funding or decreased the number of officers, according to a probe conducted by a national news agency. They include the nation’s two largest cities—Los Angeles and New York—which eliminated $150 million and $1 billion respectively from their police budget. Other cities that drastically cut police funding include Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, Baltimore, Portland, Salt Lake City and Philadelphia. Washington D.C. decreased its police budget by $15 million. Predictably, there has been a rise in crime…

Under the control of liberals, our government is not our government, because it does not perform the fundamental duties of government, like defending the border and maintaining public safety. It confiscates our money and spends it in ways that provide us no benefit. It is our enemy.

On a tip from Chuck A.

Considering the misery, havoc, and tyranny it has resulted in — not to mention 5 million deaths — you would think people would want confirmation that Covid was designed in a ChiCom laboratory with the help of funding from US taxpayers. But the liberal establishment, conspicuously including the media, has been uninterested in pursuing this. Neil Bush explains why: because it doesn’t matter where the virus came from.

Bush is the son of one US president and the brother of another. He is also founder and Chairman of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations, which recently cohosted an online forum the Center for China and Globalization (CCG).

The National Pulse reports:

The CCG is a key group within the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department (UFWD), a systematic foreign influence operation seeking “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and influence Westerners to “take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies,” according to the U.S. government.

To quote Neil Bush:

“Whether [Covid] originated in a lab or from a bat or from the United States or from wherever – who cares?”

Or as Shrillary might shriek, “What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Despite his willful ignorance regarding the origins of the ChiCom virus, Bush is blithely confident that it was not released on purpose, which he dismisses as “a crazy notion.” But given the devastating effect Covid has had in the West due to exploitative overreaction by authoritarians, the virus has worked out well for the ambitious Xi Jinping. Even if they didn’t release Covid deliberately, that may not be the case with the next virus they design. That’s why it is important to confirm that Covid is manmade, and to stop Tony Fauci et al. from funding research by our enemies that is applicable to biological warfare.

Neil Bush demonstrates that even if a fish rots from the head, our problem goes far deeper than Joe Biden or even his corrupt party. It has seeped throughout our ruling class, and will require serious measures to eradicate.

On a tip from Blackjack.

Four of the top 10 songs on iTunes have the same title: “Let’s Go Brandon.” The meme has caught fire not only because it ridicules the senile corruptocrat presiding over the ruin of our country. It also ridicules the biased media establishment, without which he never could have taken power.

Americans increasingly hate the media, and for excellent reason. By now, only the most clueless could take MSM propaganda at face value. How will the liberal establishment media continue to make a profit when no one wants to buy the lies it is selling?

Public broadcasting shows the way. It offers softspoken leftist pabulum that few have a use for. But we pay for it anyway, because the government forces us to. That’s why Democrats support the Local Journalism Sustainability Act.

As noted previously, the “local” part is misleading. Local papers are largely owned by national operations. This is a bailout for Big Media, backed by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and leftist congresscritters like Eric Swalwell.

Now state Attorneys General are pushing it, to the delight of the Seattle Times, which no doubt stands to benefit:

Led by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, a coalition of 16 AGs is urging U.S. House and Senate budget leaders to pass the Local Journalism Sustainability Act.

Surprisingly, only 15 of the 16 are Democrats. The sellout RINO is John Formella of New Hampshire.

Their timing is excellent. Congress is close to finalizing a budget bill, in which the core of the LJSA, credits for preserving journalist jobs, was included.

This is only a small sample the pernicious waste packed into the multi-$trillion blowout spending bill leftists are trying to ram through Congress for Biden’s eager signature.

If Democrats have their way, there will be no need for Big Media to tone down the left-wing bias. We will be forced to finance party propaganda.

Imagine PBS/NPR as the only major source of information. That’s what liberal utopia will look like.

On a tip from Henry.