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Wait a second: The rarest of the rare? The elusive triple down? Could it be possible?
Yep, let’s get to it.
WHY WERE THEY SO MAD?
What we’re facing this very moment is an inversion of things we took for granted for decades.
It’s hard to describe how comprehensive this inversion is — it touches almost every aspect of society. Merit is oppression. Repeat criminals are victims ( … of an oppressive system). Racism is good, actually. Actually it’s not even racism, it’s “equity.”
For my part recently, violent self-defense is highly offensive. And why wouldn’t it be to them? It represents the pinnacle of self determination. If you’re barred from violently defending yourself against summary and sometimes deadly attacks, you aren’t free; you’re aren’t even human, you’re a slave, an object at the whims of larger forces.
There are many avatars of this once-ascendant, inversive worldview. The most distilled is the debate over pronouns. I know it sounds dumb to say, but it’s true.
There’s a reason people have reacted so viscerally to the pronoun thing, but the simplest explanation is often the most correct: It demands you say exactly the opposite of the truth.
This is a much higher form of subjugation. More than just barring you from physical determination, forcing you to say — and forcing you to believe — the exact opposite of the truth, well then they’ve captured your mind and soul.
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I don’t have time to find it, but I recall a cell phone video going viral on social media during the height of the COVID panic.
It showed a man wearing a COVID mask in a grocery store. He was at the registers assaulting another man, who was maskless.
“You’re putting my life in danger,” he shrieked, as he physically beat the maskless dude.
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Twenty-seven Dems in the Colorado House have voted down a measure that would make indecent exposure a felony.
They’re concerned that aggressive policing of men showing their penises to children might negatively affect the drag and transgender communities.
“These types of laws have been used to ban drag shows, to target individuals who use the restroom of the sex that they identify with … ”
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Richard Cox is a poster-boy pedophile.
He was caught by a mother masturbating openly in the ladies’ room showers at a public rec center in northern Virginia. Police found child pornography and the rec center’s children swim schedules on his phone. You don’t have to be Perry Mason to put the pieces together here.
He got into the locker room by telling rec center staff that he was a woman.
Fairfax County police still don’t plan to charge Cox with any crimes.
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Students at Tennessee State University showed up at a conservative table display on campus that encouraged open debate and chose violence. In plain view of police officers, they committed several violent crimes. There was no attempt to hide their faces. They brandished weapons. They menaced the MAGA-hat adorned speakers. They threatened violence. They stole and damaged property.
The university, presumably seeing the videos of this go viral online, released a statement.
“At all times, TSU students conducted themselves in a professional and respectful manner,” it said.
Sure, and I identify as a purple dinosaur.
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Over the years of working in Washington, D.C., I’ve often found myself looking at the behavior of people and thinking, “boy oh boy, if you did that in my local watering hole in rural Pennsylvania, the locals would eat you alive.”
This goes for people high and low. People’s behavior on the streets. Their behavior at ritzy galas. Basically everywhere down here.
Salt-of-the-earth-type folks would never suffer for it, I often think. In politer societies, people don’t behave in these ways.
And how do we go about restoring polite society? I can think of a few ways. I outlined one Friday, and it got certain kinds of people super mad.
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In a previous SOTD, I mentioned that Barack Obama himself equated words, thoughts and ideas to violence. Specifically he was referring to RFK Jr’s ideas on vaccines, Tylenol, health care, etc.
“Broad claims” were “a type of violence” against “the truth,” he said.
Intellectually speaking, one of the great philosophical aspects of the founding of America is that thoughts and words are protected, literally first and foremost. They’re not violence. Violence is in fact violence.
“Kirk’s rhetoric helped fuel an environment that makes transgender people vulnerable to violence,” Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote in a sprawling New York Times article that could fairly be described as a post-hoc intellectual subsidy for the old adage, “he was asking for it.”
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Democrat Deb Ross of North Carolina got caught in an embarrassing moment.
She was at a hearing for the murder of Logan Federico and confused her with Iryna Zarutska, who was also murdered, right in front of Federico’s dad, who had to correct her.
Mr. Federico’s testimony is worth watching in its entirety. It was fiery and totally justified. I hope it changes things.
Between the murderers of Zarutska and Federico, who was dragged from bed and killed during a burglary in the middle of the night, there were more than 50 arrests and dozens of convicted felonies. Yet they were still out on the streets.
Post-George Floyd America venerates career criminals. After all, they’re helpless byproducts of a racist and oppressive system. In the meantime, “Democrats can’t keep track of all the victims of their crime policies,” Libs of TikTok remarked.
They’re hard to make a distinction between because, in part, those victims are just mascots of the same racist and oppressive system liberals believe has been foisted upon these hapless criminals.
Just another white girl, eh? Another privileged beneficiary of white supremacy, literally naked and terrified, screaming for her father in the middle of the night, made to get on her knees and shot in the head execution-style.
Are we tired of the inversion yet?
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It’s important to understand how the intellectual framework of Obama and Hannah-Jones plays out in the real world.
Like the man assaulting the other man at the register. If words and ideas that subvert the policy goals of the left’s insurgent cult are reframed as violent acts, then they have no choice but to defend themselves by going on offense.
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“I don’t want to be a violent person, but” says the somewhat normal looking middle-aged woman. Normal except she’s festooned in both the Ukraine flag and the transgender flag. She appears to be standing on the sidewalk in front of some shopping centers. She’s with other activists.
She finishes her thought, “in this case, I feel that we just need to … I hate to say the word, but … assassinate him.”
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The congregants of the leftist framework believe they have a moral imperative to commit summary acts of violence against conservatives and anyone who resists, because after all, it’s just self-defense.
“We just need to,” says the normie on the sidewalk.
“You’re putting my life in danger!” he shrieks, as he bludgeons the maskless man.
Importantly, the intellectual justification must be monopolistic. We can’t have anti-abortion advocates bombing women’s clinics as a result of the logic behind this framework.
Any suggestion that this leftist summary violence, reframed as self-defense, be met with violent resistance must be beaten out of the public discourse.
Thou Shalt Not Defend Yourself is the edict.
It is, as a result, imperative that we be recoded, that our understanding of self-defense be inverted.
The best way to do that is twofold. First, prosecute people who defend themselves. Kyle Rittenhouse. Daniel Penny. Jose Alba. People who defend themselves against career criminals and militant activists must be punished. And even if they’re not convicted, the process must be so painful that it dissuades anyone else from acts of self-defense.
Second, there must be a high social cost. Anyone who calls for aggressive and violent self-defense must be castigated, threatened, ruined and destroyed.
So when I called for it Friday, the reaction was swift and vicious.
And why were they so mad? Because I refused to accept their inverted worldview. My refusal to accept is a threat to their supremacy. It eats away at their monopoly.
Worse, it’s a step toward restoring the social compact they’ve worked so hard to subvert:
We never physically hurt people as a means to suppress their constitutionally protected ideas.
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One of the oldest truisms in life is distinctly male. (Sorry, gals!)
Men live under a constant blanket of potential violence. That’s just life as a man.
More often than not, the first encounter is in school. Usually a bully. As the old story goes, there’s not much that will stop a bully unless you finally defend yourself, kid.
Teachers can give detention. Moms can throw gas on the fire by complaining to other parents. Sometimes this just makes things worse for the kid getting bullied. More often than not, that’s the case. As in life, the government is probably not going to save you, and the principal can’t follow you around the schoolyard all day.
“What are you going to do?” Goes the bully, “callllll your MoOoOOommy!”
And so what ends up happening is eventually the bullied kid stands up for himself, sometimes physically. This is a parable that, believe it or not, spans cultures, socioeconomic backgrounds, even human history. That’s how common it is. It’s a developmental lesson that follows young men into other clashes in life. It’s essential.
Should the act of standing up turn physical, do both kids suffer consequences? Usually, yeah. Usually they do.
But just as often one of the primary results is the bully opts to find another mark.
We should be willing to stand up to bullies.
Now watch the bullies get mad.
WHAT I’M READING
This is a must watch.
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Okay Megyn, let’s hear it.
Megyn Kelly Says She Knows How To Fix Illegal Immigration Crisis ‘Overnight’
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Oopsies, different white girl who was murdered as a result of our soft-on-crime policies! My bad!
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