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Elon Musk discovered and filmed a closet full of #StayWoke shirts abandoned at Twitter HQ.
Meanwhile, WaPo reported that Musk ‘dismantles safety work at Twitter,’ and made employees cry, while Senate Dems seek an FTC investigation to his takeover.
San Francisco fired its long-time elections official, not because of poor performance but because he’s the wrong color.
Dear Friends —
I admit to doing it.
When I hear about a tragedy like the Club Q shooting, my mind fairly quickly turns to politics. Will this start a new gun grab? Will political activists use this to attack conservatives?
The answers are usually yes, and, as he often does, journalist Glenn Greenwald described it best:
The refusal to wait until basic facts are known in these horrific cases – due to eagerness to exploit the dead for political causes – is not just unseemly but reckless.
In general, accusing people of blood on their hands – a very heavy claim – because their political view was claimed by a killer is grotesque.
In their own grotesque display, major media outlets immediately pounced, blaming Fox News, Tucker Carlson, Libs of Tik Tok, Ron DeSantis, Chris Rufo and others. It was a full-throated attack that seeped throughout most of the mainstream media.
Now, in an unexpected twist, lawyers for the killer say their client is non-binary, and uses they/them pronouns, referring to him as 'Mx. Anderson Aldrich.'
So what now? If the killer watched Fox News, are conservatives still to blame for his actions? If he’s now a gender-confused wokester, can we instead point fingers at CNN?
Or should everyone take a step back from scoring political points until the smoke has cleared and we know what really happened? Even then, it’s good to remember that a single man – driven by mental illness, evil, or both – is the fundamental source for the carnage in Colorado.
Hate Crime legislation has opened up a Pandora’s box for abuse and misuse. The strange dichotomy is that the political side that supports hate crime charges also detest bail, police funding, stand your ground etc. On one hand they want to heap countless charges on top of charges sufficient enough to put someone away for a life time but also want people out on the streets that are a danger to society, they want social engineers instead of police to protect us and they want guns only in the hands of government entities controlled by bureaucrats and politicians.
Might be just a cynical ploy to defend against hate crime charges. Best to reserve judgment, rally around the victims and their families, and resist the urge to politicize the case beyond agreeing that hate is really, really awful and stupid.