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| | *BLM terrorists beat [[Christian]]s in St. Louis.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/st-louis-treasurer-tishaura-jones-labels-catholic-prayer-rally-kkk-meeting-three-st-louis-christians-beaten-one-knocked-leftist-brass-knuckles-kicked-head-video/</ref> | | *BLM terrorists beat [[Christian]]s in St. Louis.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/st-louis-treasurer-tishaura-jones-labels-catholic-prayer-rally-kkk-meeting-three-st-louis-christians-beaten-one-knocked-leftist-brass-knuckles-kicked-head-video/</ref> |
| | *A mother and child threatened by a violent BLM mob was told to call City Hall when she called 911.<ref>https://twitter.com/FreeIllinoisNow/status/1277883905115402245</ref> | | *A mother and child threatened by a violent BLM mob was told to call City Hall when she called 911.<ref>https://twitter.com/FreeIllinoisNow/status/1277883905115402245</ref> |
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| | + | ==July 2020== |
| | + | *Communist terrorists besiege federal courthouse in [[Portland]].<ref>https://katu.com/news/local/portland-police-declare-riot-after-demonstrators-target-federal-courthouse<ref> |
| | + | *[[Matt Tiabbii]] of ''[[The Rolling Stone]]'' writes: |
| | + | {{quotebox|"It’s the Fourth of July, and revolution is in the air. |
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| | + | Only in America would it look like this: an elite-sponsored Maoist revolt, couched as a Black liberation movement whose canonical texts are a corporate consultant’s white guilt self-help manual, and a New York Times series rewriting history to explain an election they called wrong. |
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| | + | The people who run this country have run out of workable myths with which to distract the public, and in a moment of extreme crisis have chosen to stoke civil war and defame the rest of us – black and white – rather than admit to a generation of corruption, betrayal, and mismanagement. |
| | + | I saw the first hints of this crackup in the panicked conversations of campaign reporters four summers ago. |
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| | + | Colleagues in news media had always reveled in the power to police the boundaries of national politics. |
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| | + | Former [[ABC]] reporter Mark Halperin* (henceforth canceled people will be marked here with asterisks, for shorthand purposes) used to cheerfully refer to a handful of pollsters, pundits, and pols he called the “Gang of 500 who set the political agenda for the country.” |
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| | + | Trump broke the brains of America’s educated classes. |
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| | + | Like Russian aristocrats who spent the last days of the Tsarist empire flocking to fortune-tellers and mystics, upscale blue-staters have lost themselves lately in quasi-religious tracts like White Fragility, and are lining up to flog themselves for personal and historical sins. |
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| | + | In desperation to help the country atone for their idea of why Trump happened, they’ve engaged in a sort of moon landing of anti-intellectual endeavors, committing a generation of minds to finding a solution to the one thing no thinking person ever considered a problem, i.e. the Enlightenment ideas that led to the American Revolution. |
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| | + | The same pols and pundits who not long ago were waving the flag for wars and insisting that American-style democracy was so perfectly realized that it made sense to bring it to all the peoples of the world, by force if needed (think Friedman’s hypothesis of a borderless utopia of forced wealth creation called the Golden Straitjacket), have now reversed course to tell us our entire history needs to be wiped clean. |
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| | + | Everything is a lie now.<ref>https://taibbi.substack.com/p/year-zero</ref>}} |
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| | ==See also== | | ==See also== |