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Utterly Ridiculous Men
Who buys such books? The entire country saw that Biden was mentally unfit, and anyone who watched Jake Tapper saw him repeatedly turn on anyone who spoke that obvious truth. If Josef Goebbels did not commit suicide, and instead while in prison crafted a story about how Hitler’s inner circle concealed the regime’s evil insanity from him, it might be just as persuasive.
But much worse is the self-serving verbiage of a complete weasel, former Minneapolis Police Chief Medaria “Rondo” Arradondo, who promoted the false narrative about the death of George Floyd, even to the point of lying at the Chauvin trial about training and policy. He threw four officers under the bus, caved to radicals, encouraged the crazed leftist who inflicted billions of dollars in losses on his city, and left a legacy of damage and a demoralized police force now half the size it was when he was chief. And he is proud of himself!?
These men are worse than ridiculous. They stand for the proposition that adherence to a particularly dysfunctional, ever-changing party line in the moment is the sole criterion for moral worth. An allegedly professional newsman lying to deny an electoral advantage to Donald Trump is a tiresome norm. To try to elevate that defect to a form of heroism is pathetic. To surrender to the lie about Floyd’s death (seized upon by the same people who brought you–and cashed in on–the fictional accounts of Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown), solely to serve the apparent partisan needs of the moment, is an especially loathsome betrayal when done by someone who is supposed to personify law, professional loyalty, and personal honor.
Published in General
I doubt that many Dem followers even know about the controversy. Instead they are focused on Trump’s 747 and how Elon Musk is now running the government.
I thought that maybe things had shifted enough that finally there could be conversations between liberals and the rest of us. But the Lefties have whatever the current thing is hard wired into their brains, with the much needed and heavily wrapped insulating meme being “Trump Still Orange Man Bad.”
I mean, the guy was indicted 41 times!!
“I mean to live my life an obedient man, but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday at the voting booth. That is a program of sorts, is it not? It is certainly program enough to keep conservatives busy, and liberals at bay. And the nation free.”
William F. Buckley
First off, I do want to read the Jake Tapper story for myself. The news stories coming out about it, if true, are painting a very unbelievable story.
Second there are lots of new stories lately that include the inept Chief Arradondo. First off, one of the witnesses in the Chauvin trial just basically admitted that she lied on the stand about the neck hold that was part of the Mpls Police Training. Chief Arradondo said that the neck hold was not policy. Below is a long article to follow but in a nutshell MPD Officer Katie Blackwell testified in the Chauvin (George Floyd) trial that the neck hold was not policy.
Reporter Liz Collin as part of a video called her and anyone else who said the neck hold was not MPD policy (like Chief Arradondo) a liar. Katie Blackwell sued Liz Collin. The trial that ensued brought out the truth that Katie Blackwell DID lie and she basically agrees to that. Whole story here.
https://alphanews.org/katie-blackwell-agrees-to-pay-75000-in-attorneys-fees/
Alpha News also interviewed a couple of the police officers who got thrown under the bus by Chief Arradondo. They feel betrayed.
https://alphanews.org/exclusive-5-years-later-justice-after-george-floyd-tou-thao/
https://alphanews.org/exclusive-5-years-later-justice-after-george-floyd-the-perspective-of-alex-kueng/
(OB, I was confused reading this because I had no idea that the Minneapolis police chief wrote a book, and you didn’t mention that. No matter; I eventually figured it out.)
My first thought is that the publishing of these books is the least of the issues. The authors have been professional liars in the past (in the sense of being paid to lie), and this is just some more of the same. And we’ve seen cases of large publishing advances as a form of political payoff.
So what is the audience for these books? Probably not large. I can’t imagine many people saying, “Oooh, I want to hear about the lies from the liar’s point of view!” And the books certainly won’t go into the gory details of the illicit Democrat Party operations.
Yeah, sorta like this again:
Liz Collins is a lonely voice of truth. There are so many villains in this narrative that the trial judge does not get enough credit. Minneapolis never should have been the venue. The jury selection was a farce. He even barred the jury from learning that there was a training manual showing the hold Chauvin correctly deployed–not only was it policy but you could not graduate from the police academy without knowing it. Chauvin’s mom bought his manual from his time in the academy to court but it was barred. The jury was allowed to believe lie that this was just life-threatening spontaneous cruelty.
I think the jury was encouraged to its decision, not just allowed to believe lies.
the real original sin was not covering how “Biden Inc” operated while FJB was VP
Ronald Reagan once answered the question “Where do we find such men?”
Perhaps it is appropriate to ask the same question in a new context.
Good always to read from many sources. Read, research, and question.
And then question some more. Once it is realized that bus loads of people were almost immediately brought into the area to
riot, I mean peacefully protest, the jig is up as far as traditional news sources and the reporting on the event itself. Then of course questioning the trial is necessary too.The fact that after the George Floyd death, the AntiFa/BLM movement ended up looting, committing arson as well as murder for months, while only on various alt media sites was anything close to the truth presented to the public is still bewildering.
A video distributed mid-Aug 2020 in the Chicagoland area, and presented to subscribers of the “Vdare” website ought to have become headline news for weeks. This film clip portrayed people in the Englewood neighborhood on Chicago’s south side taking a walk one August weekend through a neighborhood commons.
Some seven or eight NFL-physiqued black men, armed with iron pipes descended on the throng of Chicagoans. It should be mentioned that all of the weekend strollers were African Americans. The thugs proceeded without warning to pummel the crowd in such a way that many were left bloody and collapsed on the ground.
One battered African American pulled himself up on his knees. Behind him was the lifeless body of his lady. He began to wail the most anguished screams I have ever heard. Immediately several of the thugs returned to stand above him with their weapons held above his head. But even they couldn’t cope with the hellish wails coming from the injured man. So they left.
This scene should have been on the cover of Time, Newsweek and run across all the major TV networks. If the Kent State victims had their day of press mention, these African American victims deserved it too. Plus the barbaric thugs who committed this massacre should have been charged with the murder and the assaults. But as usual when it is the Lefties’ side of things, we got crickets.
I know of one individual who after being told by the University of Chicago to keep quiet about the things he saw on the video simply refused to shut up. He ended up losing his job.
The truth about Chauvin’s knee not being on Floyd’s neck was quietly acknowledged in the trial, which is why Chauvin was convicted of murder for something nebulous like “not taking good enough care of Floyd” while he was in police custody.
He held Floyd down, because Floyd left the safety and security of the police car himself and was trying to escape. When the ambulance finally arrived, he got off and they took over. Floyd was still alive, though unconscious. He died later, on the way to the hospital, of heart failure, not asphyxiation.
Derek Chauvin didn’t do anything to Floyd’s heart, Floyd did all that with drug abuse and terrible life habits.
My question is, if they are going to claim that Floyd died because he wasn’t treated well enough while in police custody, why weren’t the people in the ambulance the ones on trial? Floyd was in their custody when he died.
Chauvin wasn’t there for the arrest, didn’t put Floyd in the car. He showed up during the escape attempt and held him down per procedure until the ambulance arrived, and they took over. Floyd died later when he was in the custody of others.
I still wonder why Chauvin was on trial at all.
It was politically useful for the weasels who run Minnesota.
The trial was a joke. The judge was too egocentric to admit that his courtroom was the wrong venue. Jury selection was more like contestants trying to get on a game show. The prosecution outside expert formed his opinion before he saw any of the forensics and volunteered rather than sought out (unknown to the defense) and then had to make up a theory (which, by the way was not the same theory as the coroner). The police chiefs lied about restraint policy and the judge barred the training manual showing that exact pose from being entered into evidence. The experts missed the rather telling fact of an adrenal tumor which is probably why Floyd was disproportionately agitated and afraid and in a state that his cardiopulmonary defects could not handle. Everybody involved should have no professional licenses, pensions or respect.
Likely for the same reason he was “convicted”: they thought it would avoid BLM etc setting things on fire, again.
I did not (nor still do not) follow the details, but in 2020 I thought it clear that “trial” and conviction were considered the only acceptable events that MIGHT keep Minneapolis from being completely destroyed and dozens if not hundreds of people killed.
Those insiders who do decide to expose the gory side of the Dem party usually do not last long.
You can check with Seth Rich about that. (Oh wait — you can’t!)