Even the Cops are Taking a Knee
The cops may be taking a knee but some BLM protesters think it’s a PR stunt. In another PR stunt, or act of solidarity, take your pick, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants somebody to hire Colin Kaepernick. But nobody seems to know when or if teams will take the field.
Election Results: Biden says Military will Remove Trump
Joe Biden has a double digit lead in the polls. But he’s hedging his bets. He told Daily Show host Trevor Noah that if Donald Trump doesn’t accept the election results the military will frog march him from the White House.
Defunding the Police in the Land of CHAZ
Here’s a glimpse of what defunding the police looked like this week. Protesters in Seattle founded a new nation in the hood called CHAZ.
The cops ran away from Chaz without a fight. And the new national ruling elite seem to be using the abandoned police station as its capitol.
My cartoon below is an oldie from the 1999 ant-globalism protests in Seattle.
Power Politics Go Around and Come around
Power politics drove the Covid-19 crisis. Governors used police power to lock down the economy and flatten the curve. The curve flattened. But then a new crisis arrived – the police killing of George Floyd – and power shifted to a new group.
Blue states pride themselves for their liberal governors, big-city mayors, police chiefs and state attorneys general. But progressive urban bastions like Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis and Philadelphia are also the ground zero sites of arson, violence and looting, where racial relations are the worst.
Victor Davis Hanson – The Bitter Irony of Revolutions
