George Rebane

Taking a knee during our national anthem.  This has now become the woke behavior of all right-thinking people in our land where we are free to protest our government and institutions 24/7 (although not always with impunity since the 1A is ailing and in desperate straits).  Given that, remains there no sacrosanct ceremony or totem for us where showing our unabashed allegiance and gratitude for this unique land is not sullied for yet another opportunity to denigrate and protest?

Sheriffs and police chiefs marching with protesters??!  Can some of the more knowledgeable among us shed light on what these LE department heads were trying to communicate with their attendance in the throng?  Were they protesting their own inability to bring about the protesters’ desired changes in their departments (e.g. defunding), or were they just ropa-doping ‘solidarity’ with the protesters in the attempt to mollify their eventual morphing into a riotous mob?

“rightwing anarchists” is one of progressives’ phrases-of-art du jour.  Not surprisingly, it even appears on Bob Crabb’s blog to apparently identify one of the major causes of today’s nationwide riots, having no mention of the otherwise obvious participants with their desiderata prominently displayed on slogan embellished signs, graffiti, online manifestos, megaphoned gatherings, stashed caches for burnings, lootings, … .  Where can we go to witness these rightwing anarchists who are the root and visible causes of all this mayhem?  What is their number?  Where do they congregate on our streets?  Have any of them been captured or arrested?

Memo to President Trump – ‘Please STFU, give it a rest, and let the news cycle contain something else – e.g. good ecnomic news, waning pandemic – besides the lamestream’s trumpeting about your latest foot-in-mouth tweets.  Thank you.’

[update]  Economists miss May job numbers by more than 420%.  The predicted an 8M jobs loss into the face of 2.5M jobs added.  When they start doing numbers, economists are a real sorry lot, especially when we need them the most, like during this historic recession.  They do a lot of harm when they gather in bunches such as in the Congressional Budget Office and Office of Management and Budget – they really are gangs that can’t shoot straight.  You’d think that screwing up time after time they’d find other kinds of work – don’t they ever get embarrassed?

Bad poll numbers again for Trump.  So reports one of our more prominent commenters who is now easily past his fourth year of a steady stream of announcements about Trump’s declining poll numbers that are always setting record lows, especially now during the pandemic.  According to him the president never seems to recover.  So how is it that after all these years of drastic losses of public confidence, Trump’s poll numbers haven’t zeroed out, but instead remain pretty much the same.  Sounds like some kind of numerical magic to me.  Perhaps he’ll explain it to us.

[6jun20 update]  D-Day 76 years ago.  In 1944 the Rebanes had recently arrived in the Third Reich from Estonia, and were living in a hastily government-erected clapboard cabin (about 500sqft) in Stettin-am-Oder – an old German cultural and trade center, now named Szczecin in Poland.  As refugees, my electrician father was pressed into a work battalion to reinstall electricity (that or fight on the eastern front) after the nightly bombings by mostly Soviet bombers.  My seamstress mother was put to work sewing rank insignia and epaulets for Wehrmacht uniforms.  In the evenings we heard Goebbels telling the Reich of the latest German victory that somehow always was closer to Berlin than the previously reported victories.  On the night of 6 June 1944 we heard him boast of how the Wehrmacht in France was pushing the long expected allied landings in France back into the English Channel.

Revolution YES, Vigilantes NO.  That is the message from our eternally dysfunctional Democratic functionaries who rule our riotous cities on both coasts, with some more sprinkled in between.  These historically-innocent politicians are celebrating the “protests” conducted by thugs who smash and burn property while killing and maiming anyone who attempts to stop them.  We are assured that such protests are good revolutionary expressions, and America always was a revolutionary country.  In the same breath they tell law-abiding suburbanites and business owners that to defend their stores and homes with guns is illegal vigilantism, and that is not allowed.  Only the rioters are free to assault the social order with arson and mayhem while police watch.  These power-infused dufuses have no idea that the American Revolution and other laudatory labor revolts always started with citizens joining together as vigilantes when needed to oppose or augment the established order.