Posse Incitatus

Rampant Media Mendacity Following Buffalo Shooting

The Democrat Party and media (redundancy alert) have piled on in the wake of Saturday's heinous killing of 10 black people in Buffalo by a deranged white teen. Now they're labeling all Republicans and conservatives racist white nationalists and pointing the finger at Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson as the evil instigator.

It didn't take long for the sensationalism to begin. Left-wing Rolling Stone magazine ran this headline: "The Buffalo Shooter Isn't a Lone Wolf; he's a Mainstream Republican." Really?

CNN blowhard Jim Acosta accused Carlson of "peddling white nationalist talking points." Yawn.

Sleepy Joe Biden neglected to visit Waukesha, Wisconsin last November after a black nationalist with a long rap sheet drove his vehicle through a Christmas parade and killed six people including an eight-year-old boy while injuring 62. But Biden jumped at the chance to visit Buffalo today, resurrecting his bullshit narrative that white supremacists proliferate and are as menacing a threat to America as the Ku Klux Klan was back in the 1920s. 

"White supremacy is a poison," Biden said. "It's a poison ... running through our body politic," he said, adding that silence is "complicity."

So I guess by being silent about other types of racial and/or religious bigotry, Sleepy Joe is complicit.

The great Glenn Greenwald lays out the double standards in his Substack column, "The Demented -- and Selective -- Game of Instantly Blaming Political Opponents for Mass Shootings."   

Greenwald mentions the Waukesha case and other examples of the media giving less coverage and often not mentioning the perpetrator's race or political leanings if it was a black or leftist Democrat doing the shooting. He discusses the black man who shot and killed five Dallas police officers in 2016. He also mentions the late James Hodgkinson, an avid Bernie Sanders and Rachel Maddow fan who shot up a Republican baseball practice in June 2017 in Alexandria, Va. I certainly don't recall Fox News or any Republicans blaming Rachel Maddow or MSNBC for Hodgkinson's rampage.

But to hear today's left describe the Buffalo shootings, Fox News and Tucker Carlson had been urging such killings all along. These leftist hypocrites are absolutely full of it.

I don't want to stir up white vs. black racial animosities -- the bigotry goes both ways, along with tensions involving Asians, Hispanics and other racial/ethnic groups. Hatred, mental illness and scapegoating affect all races, and it is disgusting as well as shameful that one major political party -- the one with a horrendous track record these past couple of years; the one that is wrecking our country with its insane policies -- is promoting a one-sided, race-baiting narrative to try ginning up votes in the 2022 midterms.

Obama started it during his time in office, and Biden is continuing it, being the demagogue he is. Like so much of what the Demagogue Party does, this too, will go down in flames. The mother of all schadenfreude parties is coming in November.

A Despicable Attack -- Warning Signs Ignored?

My prayers and condolences go out to the victims and families of the 10 people murdered in cold blood Saturday in a despicable, cowardly attack upon a Buffalo, N.Y. supermarket.

The 18-year-old shooter is in custody, and there's no doubt he is a racist with hatred in his heart for blacks, Jews and other minorities. Like many other mass murderers, he had a ridiculous, false machismo, purchasing a surplus Army helmet and wearing body armor as if he were going into battle. A brave security guard -- Aaron Salter Jr., a retired police officer -- fired several shots that failed to penetrate the perpetrator's body armor before the scumbag gunned him down. Mr. Salter undoubtedly saved some lives through his heroism.

After just a couple of minutes, police converged upon the scene. The perpetrator reportedly pointed his gun at his own neck, threatening to kill himself, before surrendering. It is remarkable that police were able to arrest him without killing or injuring him, but it's inevitable that some claim if the shooter had been black, police would have gunned him down immediately. A racist attack will undoubtedly be expanded into a full-blown analysis of policing techniques and tendencies with racial formulations incorporated into the equation.

This heinous attack could have been prevented if police and the perpetrator's parents had intervened more strongly.

In June 2021, this teen had made threatening statements to classmates about plans to shoot up his school in Conklin, N.Y., about 200 miles from Buffalo. He also had exhibited bizarre behavior, such as showing up at school wearing a hazmat suit.

New York State Police took the teen to a hospital for a mental health evaluation after he made his threats.

How was this mentally ill person still allowed to purchase firearms and ammunition? This reminds me of the troubled teen who killed four people at Oxford High School north of Detroit last November. That teen had also made threatening statements  on social media and written suicidal sounding messages. Incredibly, his parents bought him a handgun as a Christmas present.

Perhaps specific threats made against individuals or a business or institution should disqualify a person from purchasing any firearms. Sound heavy-handed and too much like Big Brother lording it over us? Perhaps, and Lord knows we already have plenty of surveillance going on.

But look at this this way: If you're in the security line at an airport and you make a joke about having a bomb or that the plane might come down, you can be arrested and end up doing jail time plus pay a big fine.

Granted, monitoring speech is, to use the hackneyed phrase, a slippery slope. Satire, sarcasm or drunken stupidity can be uttered or typed without the author or speaker genuinely intending to harm anyone. But in the case of the Buffalo and Oxford shooters, it was apparent months in advance that something was seriously wrong.

There are Second Amendment absolutists who would disagree with me, and let me emphasize I am not advocating for broad red flag laws that would amount to a backdoor version of gun control. But I do think that when mentally ill loners and losers make threats like we've seen time and time again, selective restrictions may need to apply.

And even if it sounds naive, I'll say it: We should, to some extent, be our brother's keeper. If we know someone and know he is unstable and likely to harm himself and/or other people, it's not a bad thing to seek professional intervention. Especially if that person is a family member. This isn't something government policy or new laws can bring about. This comes from the heart and concern for other human beings.

Chuck Schumer Just Doesn't Know When to Quit

Sen. Chuck Schumer doesn't worry about embarrassing himself, as long as he can appease far-left progressives who are pressuring the Democrat Party to move way left.

Earlier this year, Schumer called two Senate votes that he must have known would fail. He wanted to change the filibuster rule and failed. He also took a vote on legislation to federalize elections, the so-called "For the People Act." This disastrous legislation, which would have stretched out elections for many weeks and opened the floodgates to fraudulent activities such as ballot harvesting, was defeated, 52-48. Senators Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona voted against the bill.

The other day, Schumer -- ever the glutton for punishment -- went to the Senate floor again for a vote on a draconian abortion bill that the Democrats claim would "codify" Roe V. Wade. What the so-called Women's Health Protection Act would have done was ride roughshod over state abortion laws, thus disenfranchising millions of voters who are guaranteed a say in their states' laws by the Tenth Amendment. This amendment codifies the philosophy of federalism -- i.e., powers and rights not delegated to the federal government become the purview of the states and their citizens.

Although the Democrats tried to spin this bill as something that would allow late term abortion only in extreme cases such as when the mother's physical or mental health were fragile and she was in danger of death or incapacitation, this was not true. The language was broad enough to allow many late term abortions -- i.e., infanticide. The final margin was 51-49, because Manchin voted no. Even pro-choice Republicans Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted against this barbaric bill.

Schumer doesn't mind another failure. He just needs to demonstrate his progressive bona fides to ensure the far left voters and party leadership don't lose their enthusiasm for him in what is sure to be a red wave come November. He may well be in the minority beginning next year.

A side note: Several major media outlets, including the New York Times, Associated Press, Public Broadcasting System, and many others, grossly misreported the vote against the abortion-on-demand bill, stating that the GOP succeeded in filibustering to ensure its failure. Duh!?!? The filibuster is a freakin' MOOT POINT when the majority votes AGAINST a bill! This is bizarro world. Are the media stooges ignorant? Stupid? Or just plain in-your-face mendacious? Possibly all of the above.

Words cannot express how much contempt I have for the garbage media and the jackals who are part of it. It's hard to think of a physical analogy, but grubs crawling underneath rocks come to mind.

The Reprehensible Biden Administration

From day one, this wretched administration has coddled criminals, race baiters, illegal aliens and anti-Semites, while demonizing solid Americans whose conservative beliefs, ownership of firearms and belief in a higher power are anathema to nihilistic progressives.

Much of the administration's agitprop has been just idiotic propaganda -- for instance, "white rage," "systemic racism," and "Jim Crowe 2.0." We learned early on to develop a thick skin for divisive, garbage rhetoric and bald-faced lies from the arrogant and condescending red-headed twit who called herself a press secretary.

We've observed since early 2021 that the administration's concern for illegal immigrants is far greater than its concern for Americans -- even those who voted for Slow Joe. Mask and vaccine mandates were jammed down our throats, but the hundreds of thousands of illegals streaming across our southern border need not comply.

And that's only the tip of the iceberg. One harebrained proposal would have paid $450,000 to illegal immigrant family members who got separated at the border. As far as I know, that crazy idea died on the vine after the administration incurred withering criticism. But Fentanyl, sex traffickers, gang bangers and probably terrorists continue to flow across the border daily.

Well, now we've reached, to use a Nineties cliché, "critical mass." Stores across the nation are woefully short of baby formula (or have none at all). There is a nationwide shortage, and many mothers are worried sick about how they will feed their infants. At the same time, pallets of baby formula have been shipped to the southern border to provide for illegal alien mothers with infant children. This is maddening and disgusting; it is literally unbelievable.

Granted, one of the things causing the U.S. formula shortage is the supply chain disruptions. Labor shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic may also be partly to blame. But mismanagement by the federal government is also a large contributor.

Heavy-handed recalls by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), high tariffs on formula imports, and onerous U.S. regulatory barriers are also to blame. For example, as the Washington Examiner reported, the FDA requires specific ingredients and labeling requirements from importers. For some idiotic reason, retailers must wait a minimum of 90 days before marketing a new infant formula.

One grievous recall and plant shutdown that has devastated infant formula supplies involved an Abbott Nutrition plant in Sturgis, Michigan. Abbott manufactures Similac and other brands. The plant has been shut down for about four months because two babies died from cronobacter sakazakii bacteria after consuming formula produced at the plant. But an exhaustive Wall Street Journal analysis determined that where inspectors did find traces of the bacteria, the areas weren’t in contact with formula products.

Back to BIden: This administration has been asleep at the wheel. It was obvious many months ago that trouble was brewing. If Joe Biden had an ounce of compassion and leadership, he would have taken aggressive action to mobilize U.S. infant formula manufacturers. He would have decided to ride herd on the manufacturers, enacting a consumer version of the Defense Production Act.

But this administration is lost. Crime rates are spiking; schools have turned into rigid centers of Marxist indoctrination; gasoline and grocery prices have wrecked household budgets; and the opioid crisis has shattered thousands of families. Yet Joe Biden and his despicable minions have chosen to go all in for abortion on demand and without restrictions. Infanticide is okay in the warped minds of the Bidenite Jacobins.

So is prioritizing illegal aliens at the expense of American women. Sometimes in the middle of the night when I lie awake in bed (nature called -- a frequent occurrence to aging Baby Boomers with enlarged prostates, or I'm anxious about something, or I got too much sleep the night before)....anyway, when I have these calm moments deep in the night and ponder what the hell is going on in the world, I wonder about our current abysmal "leaders" inside the Beltway cesspool. My mind wanders.

Are these charlatans just stupid and incompetent? Possibly. Are they so egotistical and narcissistic that they don't give a rat's ass about anyone else. Also possible. Or are they deliberately trying to harm Americans and help illegal aliens, coddle criminals and suck up to vile terrorists like the Iranians? I fear it is the latter. The more times goes on, the more it appears that "Lunch Bucket Joe" and his dreadful sycophants hate America and red-blooded Americans. They wish to give us the perpetual middle finger.

New Press Secretary is a Composite Progressive

Karine Jean-Pierre fits the bill perfectly to succeed Jen Psaki in the role of White House Press Secretary.  Psaki announced recently that she's resigning to take a position with MSNBC. (No surprise there.)

Ms. Jean-Pierre is the daughter of Haitian parents, and was born in France. As a black lesbian, she checks off two of the Dems' key pander boxes. But her beliefs and statements make her a quintessential, far-left progressive. Just the type of person the administration needs to feed propaganda to the stooges of the White House press corps.

Besides having all the makings of an affirmative action hire, the new propagandist exhibits the telltale signs of hypocrisy and delusion so common among progressives. Just in the past couple years, Ms. Jean-Pierre has:

• Stated that Fox News is... wait for it.... RACIST!!! Gee, how original. I'm sure Harris Faulkner, Lawrence Jones, Kevin Corke, Arthel Neville and other African American reporters working for Fox News would adamantly disagree.
• Insisted that Stacey Abrams is the real governor of Georgia. You see, she got ROBBED by a rigged election, says the same person who mocks and heaps scorn upon Trump supporters who suspect Slow Joe stole the 2020 election.
• Said and written vile, anti-semitic statements about Israel and regurgitated BDS talking points. A progressive who hates Jews? You don't say!
• Is in a romantic relationship with a CNN reporter, Suzanne Malveaux. (Interesting but largely irrelevant trivia fact: Malveaux was born in Lansing, Michigan, near where Posse Incitatus is based.) Imagine if a Republican press secretary had a romance going on, whether or not it was heterosexual, with a member of the Fourth Estate. The media would go ballistic.

Expect the new mouthpiece to pick up right where the egregious Psaki left off: With bald-faced lies and asinine propaganda, laced with condescension and loathing of anyone who dares challenge her narrative. And woe to anyone (Peter Doocy, are you listening) who dares to disagree and question Ms. Jean-Pierre's statements. You will be labeled a racist, homophobe, misogynist, and names far worse. 

Under President Biden (and Democrat presidents in general), the White House "press corps" has something in common with the world's oldest profession. It's really a disgusting spectacle when you realize how much trouble our nation is in and how much pain millions of people are feeling due to Democrats' moronic and severely misguided policies. But you can always count on these worthless suck-ups to kiss ass daily. Heaven help us.

The Worst is Yet to Come?

Sunday was not nearly as bad as many Christians feared it would be with regard to militant pro-abortion protesters wreaking havoc during religious services or committing acts of vandalism at places of worship. There were sporadic demonstrations and vandalism across the nation, but apparently no widespread, coordinated effort.

Protestors disrupted a Mass Sunday at The Cathedral of the Angels in Los Angeles. In Boulder, Colorado, a Catholic Church was vandalized. A pro-life organization in Madison, Wisconsin was vandalized and hit by Molotov cocktails. According to townhall.com, the pro abortion crowd on Twitter has been cheering on the attacks. Journalist Andy Ngô tweeted that Antifa was behind the Wisconsin attack.

Several days ago, an organization called Ruth Sent Us (named after the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg) published the home addresses of U.S. Supreme Court justices believed to support overturning Roe V. Wade. Over the weekend, boisterous pro-abortion crowds demonstrated unlawfully outside the homes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh. Federal law prohibits demonstrating at a justice's home in an attempt to influence the justice one way or another. But don't expect anyone to press charges against these demonstrators. Certainly not inside the Beltway cesspool.

Meanwhile, pro-abortion Twitter accounts have tweeted out the addresses of pregnancy resource centers, which basically is an open invitation for more violent kooks to attack or vandalize these facilities, as happened in Wisconsin.

I have seen some disturbing video coverage of protests outside the Supreme Court and various churches or pregnancy support centers. The viciousness, anger and vile hatred are appalling. Various riff-raff outside the Supreme Court threatened and pushed pro-life demonstrators, giving them the middle finger and repeatedly shouting F*** YOU!

One of the statements scrawled in spray paint on a church wall threatened to "burn the eucharist." Another spray painted message said, "If abortions aren't safe, then you aren't, either." On the stupidity list, one sign holder's placard stated: "ABORTION IS ESSENTIAL." It most certainly is NOT essential!

I am not going to attempt to parse the moral and ethical intricacies of having an abortion after six weeks as opposed to six months, taking the "morning after pill," or using one of myriad forms of birth control. But I do wonder why the left so fiercely endorses a barbaric procedure that is highly unnatural and in many cases inflicts pain upon the helpless developing babies inside the womb. Many women have deep remorse after having abortions, but this sad fact receives little attention.

"Women will die" if Roe V. Wade is repealed, many of the protesters claim. But there is no concern on their part for the tens of millions of developing babies with a beating heart who have died in the last 50 years. And most appalling, a bill in the California Legislature, AB 2223, would literally allow infanticide. The California Future of Abortion Council supports the bill, which shields women from criminal prosecution for the death of a baby due to miscarriage, stillbirths, and abortions . . . but also for perinatal death. "Perinatal death” means the death of a born, living baby up to one month old. 

Don't pay attention to the so-called "fact checkers" who debunk the barbarous nature of this legislation. It is as ugly as a head-on collision. Ditto for the vicious rage exhibited by pro-abortion militants. Things are getting uglier, and the lid could really blow off this summer. I hope I am wrong, but summer 2022 could be a repeat of the horrendous 2020 riot-fest, with the lawless leftists in charge simply looking the other way and cooing about "peaceful protests."

Hold onto your hats. It's bound to get worse before it gets better.