Monday Morning Breakfast For The Brain

Monday comes around like a 100 mph fastball straight to the head…

As Expected, Trump Blamed for Deadly Massacres

Via PJ Media

The news cycle was dominated by two horrible mass slaughters this weekend, one in El Paso, Texas and one in Dayton, Ohio.

In El Paso, the gunman who is in custody, drove hundreds of miles to shoot up a Walmart frequented by Hispanics. He uploaded a manifesto, unconfirmed, with anti-immigrant talk and so the media added extra Trump attacks to their usual anti-gun hysteria. There were other ideas in this manifesto, but those didn’t get much attention.

“The decimation of the environment is creating a massive burden for future generations. Corporations are heaing [sic] the destruction of our environment by shamelessly over harvesting resources,” it went on, saying Americans are unwilling to change their lifestyle to save the environment. “Fresh water is being polluted from farming and oil drilling operations. Consumer culture is creating thousands of tons of unnecessary plastic waste and electronic waste, and recycling to help slow this down is almost non-existent.”

Twitter was full of all kinds of blame for Trump (and Fox News) which is strange because after domestic terror attacks by radical Muslims, we are immediately warned not to extrapolate blame beyond the guilty party. And the manifesto explicitly says the gunman predicted the media will blame Trump even though he has held these views long before Trump came around. But of course, its Trump’s fault. Predictable. The WaPo writes the shooter’s alleged manifesto “stresses that he has maintained his white supremacist ideology for many years, predating President Trump and his 2016 campaign, which he says did not influence his reasons for carrying out the attack.”

Presidential candidates joined into to blame the president, of course. But remember why they blame Trump: his immigration policies. The president doesn’t espouse white supremacy talking points about master race clap trap and keeping America “pure,” he supports border enforcement and restricted immigration. This is what the left has turned into white supremacy.

Read the entire article HERE.

These Mass Shootings Are Too Convenient

Via Creative Destruction Media

As we bury scores more victims of mass shootings this week, first we must acknowledge and respect the grief the victim’s families are experiencing. I cannot image the pain. All we can say is we hope that somehow you find peace over time.

However, there is something very unnerving about these mass shootings in America…and it’s not the obvious horrific violence. No, the unnerving characteristic is that they are all way too convenient for those on the Left, those trying to defeat President Trump, and those who want the American public to be disarmed, therefore unable to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. This comes on the heels of an attempted coup against a sitting president of the United States, and an obvious desire amongst our Leftist elites to control, control everything.

I first felt this way after the Las Vegas shootings. We never heard anything more about the multiple women that were heard saying, “You’re all going to die in 45 minutes…” In fact, we have heard nothing about the real motivation of the shooter. That simply does not make sense.

Something is being covered up, very effectively I might add.

Read the entire article HERE.

Do You Believe In “Conspiracy Theories?” An FBI Report Says You’re A Potential Domestic Terrorist

Via Zero Hedge

The FBI has released a 15-page document warning of the dangers of “anti-government, identity-based, and fringe conspiracy theories.” The law enforcement agency says that these are “very likely to motivate some domestic extremists to commit criminal, sometimes violent activity.” The document seems to recommend increased social media and web censorship.

The FBI assesses anti-government, identity-based, and fringe political conspiracy theories very likely motivate some domestic extremists, wholly or in part, to commit criminal and sometimes violent activity. The FBI further assesses in some cases these conspiracy theories very likely encourage the targeting of specific people, places, and organizations, thereby increasing the Iikelihood of violence against these targets. These assessments are made with high confidence, based on information from other law enforcement agencies, open-source information, court documents, human sources with varying degrees of access and corroboration, and FBI investigations.

One key assumption driving these assessments is that certain conspiracy theory narratives tacitly support or legitimize violent action. The FBI also assumes some, but not all individuals or domestic extremists who hold such beliefs will act on them. The FBI assesses these conspiracy theories very likely will emerge, spread, and evolve in the modem information marketplace, occasionally driving both groups and individual extremists to carry out criminal or violent acts. Indicators that may lead to revised judgements or cause a change in the confidence level assoc iated with this assessment include a lack of conspiracy theory-driven criminal or violent activity in the near to long term or significant efforts by major social media companies and websites to remove, regulate, or counter potentially harmful conspiratorial content.

So what do they consider conspiracy theories? A few of the theories and topics mentioned in the document are QAnon, Pizzagate, the New World Order, various child-sex trafficking ring theories, and racial extremists. Interestingly, there is no specific mention in this document of Antifa and their theories, despite the fact that they’re decidedly anti-government and confirmably violent.

The FBI believes the internet causes anti-government theories to spread.
The internet brings people together in forums, on social media, in private online chatrooms, and via email. The document released by the FBI seems to consider that this is part of the problem.

Read the entire article HERE.

If you haven’t supported white supremacy, you don’t have to denounce it

Via NOQ Report

Twitter is a cesspool of partisan outrage at the best of times. Following this weekend’s mass shootings, it’s become the worst place on the internet for anyone looking o have an honest conversation about, well, anything. I’m avoiding it like the plague, but not before taking note of something posted by the venerable Jesse Kelly:

I am not white, nor do I believe in any race having supremacy over another. But as a conservative I will not be cornered into the label that all of us are white supremacists. In fact, I would counter that the number of true white supremacists in this country is far less than the number of Antifa-supporting non-white-supremacists. There is a growing number of racists coming out of the closet lately denouncing whiteness in ways only true bigots can. Even the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has gone full-blown racist by denouncing efforts of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission by releasing Caucasians because they were Caucasian.

This is real racism.

Should white supremacy be denounced? Yes, but only by those who have extended their belief systems and circle of influence to include those who are white supremacists. Why should all conservatives or all Republicans be forced to denounce something if none of their actions have embraced the belief system to begin with?

Read the entire article HERE.

Baltimore’s Homicide Rate Is So High, Residents Could Claim U.S. Asylum If They Weren’t Americans

Via The Federalist

People have long misunderstood and misrepresented Baltimore, my cherished hometown, but much of what President Donald Trump said this past weekend about Charm City was right on the nose. The president categorized Baltimore as a “disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess,” which sparked ire among his always-vocal choir of critics but offered no untrue information.

The president was responding to longtime Maryland Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings, whose district includes Baltimore, who had issued an incendiary attack on acting Department of Homeland Security head Kevin McAleenan for conditions on the U.S. southern border. Cummings yelled at McAleenan during a House Oversight hearing, claiming he possessed an “empathy deficit” about migrant families at the border.

Disparaging remarks about Baltimore are not new. Politicians, celebrities, and even residents of the city have easily mocked the soaring crime rate, rodent infestation, and never-ending parade of local government scandals. The three most recently departed mayors have left in disgrace. One was convicted of fraud that involved stealing gift cards from needy families, and another is under active investigation for embezzling government funds.

Read the entire article HERE.

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