UK lurches from tragedy to farce

"The UK's Assault Knife Crisis".

Some of the policy suggestions in the UK have included:

- Blunting the Points on All Knives: every kitchen knife in the UK must be rounded off at the tip to prevent stabbings. Yes, that was a real policy discussed in a BBC documentary on knife crime.

- Installing Machete Drop Boxes: suggested in the UK, trialed in Australia, and ridiculed globally.

- Taxes on kitchen knives.

A few things that never seem to occur to the powers that be are (1) permitting people to carry some form of defensive weapon, (2) sentencing the guilty to prison for long periods of time, and (3) redirecting the police toward preventing and solving violent crimes, instead of playing at being social media monitors. Oh, and halting the immigration of unassimilable hordes of foreign trouble-makers.

Come back, Jeff Davis, all is forgiven

 Victor Davis Hanson on the Democrats' newfound opposition to federal government: "Insurrection Chic".

Who is the real, or fictional, inspiration for the new insurrectionary wing of the Democrat Party?

The fictitious Hollywood insurrectionist, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “James Mattoon Scott” (Burt Lancaster), who in the 1964 film Seven Days in May attempted to overthrow the presidency?

Or perhaps Jefferson Davis? He ultimately ordered the attack by South Carolina state forces against the federal garrison at Fort Sumter, which ignited the Civil War.

Or is the better inspiration the “Stand in the Schoolhouse Door?” Alabama Governor George Wallace likewise vowed to use his state’s law enforcement to nullify a federal law.

Yet how odd that the left, which had lectured us so often about a January 6th “insurrection”—a charge that not even the Javert-like special counsel Jack Smith ever lodged against Donald Trump—now talks frequently about the proud nullification of our nation’s federal laws.

If Blade Runner had been conceived as a film noir in the 1940s

 

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She deserves to lose, not only for her radical left-wing political positions...

...but for sheer stupidity: "Far-Left Dem Congressional Candidate in Tennessee Turns into a Bumbling Mess After MSNOW Exposes Her Old and Disgusting Anti-Police Tweets".

First, this genius announces that she hates practically everything associated with her congressional district - notably country music - then reveals that she was totally unprepared to answer questions about some old Tweets opining that it would be a positive public good to burn down police stations. 

Of course, Democrats don't care about intelligence, good judgment or commitment to an orderly society; as long as a candidate has that all important "D" by his or her name, that's all that matters. 

"They have no moral standing to claim outrage!"

You tell 'em, congressman Donalds: "‘They Threw a Grenade – Now Feign Outrage’ – No Sympathy For TikTok Traitors".

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) lit into Democrats Friday on Capitol Hill, blasting their viral video urging military mutiny against President Trump as a cynical “grenade” lobbed for clicks and clout—then dismissing their crocodile tears over Trump’s jail threats as “BS” with zero moral high ground.

I suspect the Democrats involved are just "showing their tails", as Old Paco would say, and don't realistically anticipate triggering a Seven Days in May situation, but I could absolutely be wrong about that; always take Democrats at their word when they vow to destroy you.

I think Venezuela can no longer afford this clown

"The Skies Empty Over Caracas As the Dictator Dances".

What I can report today is that Maduro is still trying to appeal to the American public to stop Donald Trump from invading his country and crying about imperialism. Last week, he did it by singing "Imagine" by John Lennon and claiming he has some sort of direct line to Jesus, who will protect Venezuela from the yanquis. This weekend, he's turned to dancing. Same clown, different beat.

Geez, he sounds like James Comey.