The Best Laid Schemes

Billionaires fighting to build new ‘utopian city’ with ‘jobs for everyone’ in California are forced to back down as they make embarrassing admission [More]

What, that we don’t see much racial diversity in the proposed kids on bikes and outdoor cafe illustrations, or that the overprivileged tech geek in charge sued farmers for their land? I wonder how many migrant workers were displaced by that…?

If they ever do get it up and running, how long do you give it before those designer buildings are defaced with graffiti, a homeless encampment springs up along with the attendant poop and needles on the sidewalks, Antifa “occupies” a section to “liberate” it from capitalist swine “One Percenters,” and they experience their first gang shootout, despite a (presumed) residency contract to live “gun free”…?

These Philosopher Kings with their ability to control the less powerful who are willing to be, if not bought, rented, imagine themselves as gods.

The Arbiter of Reasonableness

Crooks, who was killed by security forces, used an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, a powerful and, in the US, easily available weapon that in more reasonably administered countries would be off-limits to private individuals. [More]

For a European historian, this guy sure is forgetful.

[Via Matt L]

A Matter of Priorities

July 4 is slated for the same treatment as Confederate statues.

[Via WiscoDave]

Mindrapers

Donald Trump Movie ‘The Apprentice’ Ignites Controversy in Cannes Over Rape Scene [More]

Except thse people are such liars, but they don’t care (kinda like WaPo).

It wasn’t rape.

In a statement obtained by CNN, Ivana Trump said the Daily Beast story “is totally without merit.” “I have recently read some comments attributed to me from nearly 30 years ago at a time of very high tension during my divorce from Donald. The story is totally without merit. Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised three children that we love and are very proud of. I have nothing but fondness for Donald and wish him the best of luck on his campaign. Incidentally, I think he would make an incredible president,” Ivana Trump said in the statement, which was verified by the Trump campaign.

If you want to see real violent physical abuse of women, you’ll be wanting Biden supporter Puss Daddy.

Her Body His Choice

In the weeks before she was killed, Roque repeatedly took all steps domestic violence victims are told to take. She got a protection order against her former boyfriend, Kenneth Brown. She also repeatedly went to the Chicago Police Department for help. She filed one police report after another and never gave up. [More]

Did she get a gun?

And why won’t they show us who she got involved with? Conspicuous absence just makes people want to look and then wonder

[Via Jess]

Coming Soon, to a Caliphate Near You

The power of putting George Washington in a kaffiyeh [More]

It’s either “literally surrender” to cultural appropriation or topple, spray paint, smear, or remove it.

It’s kind of a thing with such types.

It’s what we can expect whenever such “power” is submitted to, which makes fair the question “Why would we?” or more to the point, “What’s the real agenda of those who have the power to stop it but not enough to stop us– yet?”

It all kinda makes me want to go out there and get taxed some more to “forgive” student loans

From the Tide Pod Challenge Generation

Columbine school shooters glorified by young followers: Inside the scary online obsession [More]

It’s like the crazy women who “fall in love” with serial killers.

When they say women are less safe with a gun in the home, a good part of the statistics are swayed by their choices in dangerous men.

[Via bondmen]

Inmates Running Asylum

This month, two psychiatry residents at UCLA, Drs. Ragda Izar and Afaf Moustafa, hosted a talk in which they argued for the “de-patholization” of self-immolation. They said that self-immolation isn’t a sign of mental illness if it’s in resistance to colonization, homophobia, and white supremacy. [More]

This calls for a demonstration.

[Via Michael G]

Verified by MonsterInsights