ShoeOnHead grapples with the inexplicable Lindsay Clancy TikTok Cult, and comes to the same conclusion the rest of us have: They’re insane.
“Enough about women’s rights. It is time to talk about women’s wrongs.”
“Here is a unique brain frying happening over on Tik Tok. And it has caused probably the greatest gender divide I have ever seen on any culture war topic ever. It’s one of the very few times I’ve genuinely been taken aback by something on the internet. And if you know me, that should worry you.”
“Many Republican women and mostly Democrat women are finally coming together.” I think Shoe is 99.9% wrong here. The number of Republican women supporting Lindsay Clancy seems minuscule.
“If you are a man dating a woman, ask her about the Lindsay Clancy trial. And if she says she feels bad for her, or even worse, the husband did it, run.”
“Yes, the women are rising up to defend Lindsay Clancy, a woman who brutally took out her own three children. Lindsay admitted she did it. Her lawyers admitted she did it. All evidence lines up and proves she did it. The current trial debate was not about if she did it or not. The current trial is about whether she will be thrown in prison for murder or thrown in a looney bin for being crazy.”
“The insane theories people are coming up with to defend this woman, the bizarre fanfiction they are writing about her husband, how they have donated over $1 million for her, and all of the real life protests happening to support her. O.J. Simpson for white women.”
“Now, not all women are defending Lindsay Clancy, obviously, but nearly all of the people defending her, like 99.99% of the people defending her are women.”
“These people are crazy. These people are freaks.”
“Let’s talk about why ‘Repeal the 19th’ was trending on Twitter for three days. And let’s take a comprehensive look into what I am calling mass female Tik Tok psychosis.
“In January 2023, Lindsay Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse and mother of three, murdered her three children. 5-year-old Kora,3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Ken. On the evening of January 24th, Lindsay Clancy purposely sent her husband Patrick Clancy out on a long errand. She told him to pick up medication at CVS and pick up food from a restaurant far away. And while he was gone, she took each of her children one by one down to the basement and strangled them to death with exercise ropes. She then tried to take the coward’s way out by jumping out a two-story window and she’s now paralyzed in a wheelchair. The defense argues that Lindsay was suffering from postpartum psychosis.”
“As it stands right now and as it stood for years, it is universally accepted that Lindsay Clancy killed her children. The trial was about if Lindsay was going to prison or the Looney Bin. Nobody in the court is arguing that Lindsay Clancy is innocent. Not even her own lawyer. Nobody. Well, nobody except thousands and thousands of women on TikTok. Lindsay Clancy didn’t do it.”
“Believe all women.” “I killed my kids.” “No, you didn’t.” “For some reason, every woman and her mother has convinced herself that actually Lindsay’s husband, Patrick, is the real perpetrator of this crime. Despite there being absolutely no proof of this anywhere whatsoever.”
Montage of TikTik comments: “Lindsay Clancy is innocent. The husband did it. I said what I said. New theory. He killed the kids. His was the voice she heard. He threw her out the window. She’s about to be jailed for life for something her husband did. He was having an affair. He plotted. He drugged her. I think the voices she was hearing was him. Her surviving wasn’t part of his plan. I think he was already having an affair. He killed his kids and attempted to kill her, then blamed her for what he actually did. I think he did it while she was in severe psychosis and convinced her she did it. I have the strangest feeling that he was having an affair with one of her doctors. I just can’t prove it.”
“None of that shit they said is true. None of it. Not a single thing they said is based in reality.”
“This all happened years ago. They investigated the husband and found nothing. But you see, the dozens of professionals working on this case, the detectives, the FBI, the cops, the lawyers are nothing compared to the mind of the TikTok female. They can see through it all. Evidence be damned. The husband did it and they can prove it with intuition and vibes and star racism.”
Snipping put women spouting Astrology BS.
More female TikTok madness: “I think the voices Lindsay Clancy was hearing in her head were her husband’s thoughts. Women when they are postpartum are more psychically intuitive and telepathic. Women have intuition. So many of us are standing behind Lindsay because we know she didn’t do it. As women, we know what he did. We see it. Women know. We all know. It’s Patrick Clancy versus the women of America at this point.”
“‘Like, why hasn’t he been arrested yet?’ Oh my god. Because the law isn’t based on emotions and TikTok girlies gut feelings, but rather uses evidence, testimonies, digital footprints, and most important, confessions to determine guilt. ‘Says the man.'”
“Women have intuition. Men do not. Women need to lead the FBI. No, because women’s intuition is powerful.”
“Women have all this magical intuition until it comes to finding a good man, and then all their exes are abusive narcissists. Weird how that works out.”
More TikTok madness: “How do we know Patrick Clancy did it? Well, just look at him. He just looks guilty. This is all I needed to see. Case closed. This is the biggest reason I don’t believe him. Without knowing anything about it, but seeing what the man looks like, he did it. My three-year-old daughter took one look at him and said, ‘That’s a bad guy.’ His facial expressions are giving him away. He’s never shown any grief over losing his three children. Lindsay, on the other hand, is going through hell. Not a single tear. Stonefaced the whole time.”
“‘Something is off. Something seems off about him.’ Yeah, his wife murdered his children. That’s what’s off, you fucking freaks. The 911 call was so horrific, so traumatizing that they didn’t want it released to the public.”
Horrifying description of the 911 call as he’s finding each of his three murdered children snipped.
“But yeah, he’s not crying in court like they do in the movies. So, he’s guilty because everyone knows crying in court means you’re innocent, right? And you know damn well that if he was crying, they would all just say he was faking it, which they have. There was one point in the trial where Patrick’s voice was shaky and he was getting upset and they all were just like, ‘Well, narcissists are really good actors.’ So, if he doesn’t cry, he’s a cold psychopathic Gemini. And if he does cry, he’s a narcissistic actor. Also, I’m sorry, but if we’re going to judge people based on the way they look, what the fuck is this?”
“She looks like a fucking villain out of a children’s fairy tale. Bitch is a goblin. Bitch is a ghoul. Bitch is a Japanese water ghost.”
More TikTok crazy: “There are thousands of woman triggered. The reason? Because those are the eyes of a covert narcissist. And we’ve all looked into those eyes before. I’ve seen that same look in my father’s eyes. This photo of him gives me the chills. You can actually feel the rage he’s trying to hide. Us women who’ve stared down a man with those same kind of eyes knowing he wanted to hurt us. Some of the comments I’m getting are insane because not just me, but women all over the world who have lived with a sociopathic psycho clocked Patrick immediately.”
“These women are all projecting their daddy issues and like past relationship trauma onto this randoming guy. This guy who just went through like unimaginable horror and they’re just like, ‘he reminds me of my dad.'”
Skipping over more “Patrick did it” posts, including one where her psychiatrist agreed. “These yes-men, chatGPT-ass therapists just enabling and feeding the delusion of these narcissistic idiots. You know what a real therapist would say? You know what a real good therapist would say? Log off.”
“There is no proof that Patrick Clancy was a abusive husband or a bad father. In fact, there’s only proof of the opposite. Things we do know from this case was that Patrick was a very helpful father. He did paternity leave. He worked from home. He took the kids whenever she wanted him to. Paid the bills. He let her stay home. They had a nanny, but no, he’s actually a terrible father. And he’s guilty because uh my mystical rectangles told me so.” Yeah, I’m skipping over the TikTok Tarot Card Mystics.
More idiocy: “‘All women stand with Lindsay. Even if she did it, she didn’t do it. Even if he didn’t do it, he did it.’ What? ‘She was their mother before she became a headline.’ Oh wow. Why did she become a headline? Go on, tell the class. ‘Those children had a childhood because of their mother.’ And now they’ll have no adulthood because of their mother. Your point?”
“‘It sounds absolutely crazy, but I’ve got this overwhelming feeling that she’s part of the awakening of the divine feminine. We are all rallying around her, except for those of us who are still under the patriarchy.'” Like I said, I seriously doubt there are many Republicans among the ranks of the loonies.
“Patrick Clancy has pissed off the witches. ‘Every one of us that have roots that go back to the Salem witch trials, we are freeing our ancestral bloodline by coming together for Lindsay Clancy.’ Were the Salem witch trials really that bad?”
“You are not the people actually working on the case. They know that, right? They know they’re not actually working on the case, right? ‘We literally binge watch true crime as a hobby. We’ve been trained for this moment. Clocking in for my shift as an at home juror on the Lindsy Clancy trial, day 14. This case has me feeling like I’m on Law and Order with all you guys. Coffee for those of us working hard on this case. We deserve coffee and bonus pay.’ Oh god, they really think they’re working on this case. You were not detectives. You are bored housewives who replace daytime soap operas with Tik Tok. Again, I can’t stress this enough. The trial is not about who did it. They really do believe that this is like a movie and there’s going to be some kind of plot twist that the defense will have like his L. Woods moment.”
All the lunatic, provably false things Lindsey stans believe about Patrick Clancy snipped.
“Imagine being this guy. Imagine going through what he has been through. And now you have to deal with retards on TikTok and TMZ stalking you as if you were some kind of pop star.”
“I don’t know how this dude is still functioning. I would have gone full Shutter Island, personally. And it’s not like he just moved on and forgot about them. He built a park in their honor. He raised over $75,000 for Boston’s Children Hospital. Also, Patrick and his sisters helped create the Herd Foundation, which is an organization that focuses on parental mental health. That is way more than these fucking idiots supporting Lindsay ever did.”
“As I am filming this, they have raised over $1 million for Lindsay. And I’m not exaggerating when I tell you that every single donation is from a woman. I’m not joking. You can go check yourself. You will be scrolling for a long ass time. I scrolled for like 10 minutes and didn’t see one male name.”
“‘Finally, women are the protectors and providers!” Protecting a murderer and providing her with $1 million.”
“But that’s not all! It gets worse! These women planned and organized real life rallies outside of the courthouse for Lindsay.”
“A lot of these women probably see this as nothing more than like some bizarre form of super late term post-birth abortion. No matter what you think of abortion, you got to admit going from like safe legal rare to like shout your abortion, just celebrating it and completely normalizing it as if it’s like another form of birth control probably had some bad side effects on society. I don’t know. I’m just throwing out theories because like I have no theory of mine for this. This is just insane to me.”
“She’s a murderer and she preplanned all of this. She just she needs to fry.”
“So, like, what the fuck do they want? Like, are you telling me right now that a bunch of feminists are arguing that women’s hormones make them so crazy that they should not have agency and they should be locked up against their will? Okay, two steps forward 150 years back.”
OK, Shoe seems to have unearthed one Republican Lindsay Clancy supporter in Hannah Cox. “Literally, the woman who started the first rally for Lindsay Clancy is like a TPS USA, Charlie Kirk, Matt Walsh fan. It’s not just liberal women. It’s overwhelmingly liberal women, but it’s not just liberal women, which is what makes it a unique and extra creepy phenomenon.”
“There’s also like no leftist men or liberal men sticking their neck out for these women. There’s no like performative male allies coming out like, ‘I support you ladies.’ Wait, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. There’s one.”
People complaining that Lindsay Clancy’s doctors should have helped her skipped over. “It wasn’t really the doctor’s fault. She kind of just doctor shopped around for different pills. She never told doctors she was seeing other doctors. She didn’t tell them she was on other medications. She kept just collecting them, not taking them, taking them whenever she wanted. The system didn’t fail her. And like one in five women are taking SSRIs. How many have done this? Trust me, nobody hates big pharma more than I do. But trying to make this a big pharma thing isn’t going to work here. Not everything is big pharma, big Israel, big deep state.”
She find a comment from another self-professed MAGA supporter Lindsay, so I guess that’s two Republicans. Maybe.
“Men do commit most of the murder. Men do commit most of the family annihilation. But the difference is, now stay with me here, these men are not supported by thousands of other men. They’re not rallied around and they’re not given a million dollars. These men are universally hated, as they should be, as Lindsay Clancy should have been. People aren’t looking at Lindsay and going, ‘Wow, all women are murderers.’ They’re looking at all the women supporting the murderer.
Skipping over women breaking up with boyfriends who won’t validate their madness. “The way they just enable the worst in each other never will cease to amaze me. Oh my god, you’re so valid, queen. Ah, break up with your man for not supporting a murderer.”
“‘I’m considering calling off my wedding next year because of this. He’s a good man, but he said something about the women outside the court for Lindsay that really rubbed me the wrong way and I couldn’t get over it. What did he say about the women outside the courtroom? He said they all looked like crazy Karens.’ Calling off a wedding to a good man because he dared called these freaks Karens. Holy shit! Dude dodged a nuclear bomb.” Theme of the weekend…
“This whole phenomenon makes a lot more sense when you realize just how deeply true crime has infested female culture. Women are significantly more likely than men to consume true crime content. Their brains have been absolutely fried by true crime. And now they believe that like every murder has a secret twist. Every villain is simply misunderstood. Not the detectives, not the FBI, not the lawyers, not the police who have been working on this for three years. No. 32-year-old Karen Smith from Ohio is going to crack the case right after Pilates. Trust me.”
Backseat Karen detectives skipped.
Evolutionary biology explanation skipped.
“It is important to remember that when you are arguing with a woman, you are not arguing with her. You are arguing with the 145 Tik Toks she watched that day. Normie women are having their social media feeds flooded with other women, their community, people they trust, the herd, talking about this situation. Females telling other females this is something they should care about. Gives a sort of faux community and they feel like they need to band together. The sisterhood. A big part of this instinct is the fear of social ostracization from that sisterhood. You do not want to be exiled from the herd. You do not want to be kicked out of the sisterhood.”
“Postpartum depression is absolutely a real thing. I hate how this discourse has kind of become like a debate whether or not it’s real. It’s absolutely real. Women’s hormones are insane after they give birth. They just like drop off a fucking cliff. Things get pretty bad. But for most women, like basically all women who have postpartum depression do not in fact murder their children. But here’s the big thing with this entire case. Uh she’s full of Yeah. A forensic psychologist assessed Lindsay over a 3-day period, and said that Lindsay has bipolar disorder, has experienced no manic episodes, was not manic when she killed her children, never had psychosis, postpartum or otherwise, no hallucinations, meaning she lied about hearing voices, maintained full awareness during the crime, was in full control of her actions, and understood the illegality and moral wrongness of her actions. In other words, she’s a lying ass bitch your honor. Both her PPD and PPP were self-dagnosed after all of this. Psychosis, my entire fat white ass. I do not buy it for a second. It’s like a non crazy person’s idea of what a crazy person would sound like in order to get the insanity. Please. ‘Whoa! The voices. The voices only spoke to me one time, and it was conveniently when the only person who could protect the children was sent out of the house by me. Whoa.’
“There’s no accountability ever. Ever. Ever. No accountability whatsoever. You could do the most evil thing on earth and there’s no accountability. It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault. It’s the doctor’s fault. It’s your husband’s fault. You were let down. You’re just a perpetual victim of the universe. She’s just a girl, your honor. Holy shit.”
“And while I was watching these corny ass Tik Toks, all I kept thinking about was the kids. How scared and confused they probably were while their own mother, the person that was supposed to protect them, the person they trusted, betrayed them like that. Like, how do you do that one by one? And they’re not little kids. They’re not all little babies. like they struggled. Kids are so innocent. Their world is so small. All they know is their mommy and their daddy and their toys and their safe home. And that was just all taken from them in cold blood.”
“And like we’re supposed to feel bad for her. She’s the real victim. She was sad. We have to go wear pink and march for her. No. All these women did was make a murderer a millionaire and get America closer to repealing the 19th. No, seriously. Because of this, repeal the 19th was trending on Twitter for like multiple days. Honestly, at this point, if I have to give up my vote, so Pitbullmama 78 also loses her vote, that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.”
Also, some crazy woman named Dawn Light, a Clancy supporter and quote, ‘crime junkie,’ was just arrested for yelling at the jury. So, this is just an absolute circus and I have no idea what is going to happen.”
“In conclusion, Lindsay Clancy admitted she did it. There’s no evidence her husband did it. She was never diagnosed with postpartum psychosis. She had plenty resources. is she had tons of help. She purposely told her husband to go on a long errand so she could do what she wanted to do. She was not failed by the system. She failed herself. And most of all, she failed those children. And she betrayed them like an evil demonic bitch from hell. She deserves to rot in prison or worse.”
Another Trump assassination attempt, but this time we can switch the spinner from “Deranged Democrat” to “Complete Nutcase.”
White House Gunman Identified, Was Known to Secret Service
A court issued an order barring him from the area. He violated it and kept coming back. The Secret Service kept finding him loitering around the White House.
Chronicle of a death foretold.
Nasire Best, 21, of Maryland, had been showing up at the White House for nearly a year before Saturday evening, when he pulled out a revolver and opened fire at a security checkpoint. Secret Service officers shot and killed him at the scene. At least one bystander was seriously wounded.
Attempting to shoot your way into the White House with a revolver is pretty crazy on its own.
The agents who confronted him had seen him before. Court records show he was involuntarily committed in June 2025 after obstructing traffic near 15th Street and E Street NW, just blocks from where he would be killed eleven months later. The following month, he was arrested for unlawful entry after bypassing a restricted pedestrian control post at the White House perimeter. When agents detained him, he told them he was Jesus Christ and that he wanted to be arrested.
Why yes, if there’s one trait we can all agree Jesus displayed it was his love of shooting at people.
I’ve now created a “Lunatics who thought they were Jesus Christ” tag, and I’m going to have to go back and apply to it retroactively that post about Todd Kincannon.
A court issued an order barring him from the area. He violated it and kept coming back. The Secret Service kept finding him loitering around White House entry posts in the months that followed. No political motive has been established. Best wasn’t a political operative with a manifesto; he was a deeply disturbed young man who kept returning, compulsively, to the same patch of federal ground until the day he arrived armed.
The shooting lasted seconds. Best fired a few rounds before officers cut him down. Members of the press corps on the White House grounds dove for cover as the shots rang out.
Another week, another example of AI hallucinating in a way detrimental to human beings.
Kneon: “We’re going to talk about Open AI adding mental health safeguards to chat GPT because apparently it’s feeding into users delusions.”
K: “It’s telling them that they’re they’ve got superpowers, or that they’re the chosen one.”
Geeky Sparkles: “If you have chat GPT trying to generate something for you, if they don’t have the information, they’ll make up or whatever, cuz it’s just programmed to please you.”
GS: “So when you have people who have um mental health issues, and they might be delusional in some way, it’s going to reaffirm that, which is not helpful.”
K: “Apparently, it’s causing issues in relationships. People are using it as a marriage counselor, relationship counselor.”
GS: “Oh no.”
K: “A 30-year-old man with autism was hospitalized for manic episodes and an emotional breakdown after chat GPT reinforced his belief he had discovered a way to bend time.”
AI doesn’t tell you the truth, it tells you what you want to hear, or some stochastic approximation of truth laid down by process you probably don’t understand. It’s a salesman that doesn’t even know its lying because it has no human conception of “truth.”
K: “A 30-year-old man on the autism spectrum had no previous diagnosis of mental illness. He asked ChatGpt to find flaws with his amateur theory on faster than light travel. He became convinced he had made a stunning scientific breakthrough. When Irwin questioned the chatbot’s validation of his ideas, the bot encouraged him, telling him his theory was sound.” So AI has less “common sense” than an average high school science fiction fan…
K: “And when Irwin showed signs of psychological distress, the chatbot assured him he was fine.”
GS: “Well, right there, you’re asking a chatbot if you’re okay. That’s your first indication that you’re not okay.”
GS: “If you don’t watch it, it’ll just make up shit. It’ll make up quotes, it’ll make up numbers, it’ll make up that’s why you have to double check everything anymore. Because you know sometimes these bots are running amuck as far as articles and stuff are concerned, and people don’t check.”
Just imagine what Chuck Jones could do with “Bot Amuck”
K: “YouTube is completely littered with all these like fake videos, not even like, ‘Hey, we’re bending the news.’ No, it’s ‘we’re just making shit up,’ like so-and-so died, or this is a big lawsuit going on with so and so and so and so and, oh my god, that’s not real.”
Sadly, So-And-So is, in fact, dead
GS: “You especially can’t expect ChatGPT to tell you the truth about things like, ‘Am I mentally ill?'”
The isolation of the pandemic also left some people broken and lonely. K: “They just can’t make those human connections again.”
GS: “ChatGPT, they’re worried, is stunting people mentally.”
GS: “It’s actually making them dumber.”
GS: “If it’s telling you you can bend space and time, it’s probably not telling you the truth.”
I’m skipping over the whole “sad, lonely men turning to AI ‘girlfriends'” thing.
It’s possible that the rational, infallible, near God-like AI envisioned by our venture capital TechLords could have been developed. On Vulcan. By a select caste of priest king logicians dedicated to pure truth. In the 23rd century.
But that’s not the AI we have. The AI we have was birthed in the weirdness of the social justice/pandemic era by very irrational human beings. Garbage in/garbage out.
Real artificial intelligence was always going to be a long-shot, but AI had the misfortune of having the technological underpinnings that allowed it to arrive and grow at the exact same time that one of the most irrational movements in human history infected the overclass with wokeness. Not only are the terminally woke incapable of telling the truth, they deny the very possibility of objective truth in favor of their subjective “lived experience.”
To be sure, wokeness was not the only madness around when the the TechLords unleashed their bottlejinn to krill-feed data in the vast ocean of the Internet, but social justice has been the most pervasive flavor of madness.
Democrats enabling sexual predators (yet again), more tanks for Ukraine information, and the unexpected return of Storm Drain Woman. It’s the Friday LinkSwarm!
Published in November of 2022, the story indicated “thousands of child molesters are being let out after just a few months, despite sentencing guidelines.”
The story reported that more than 7,000 inmates convicted of “lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years of age” were released from prison the same year they were incarcerated.
The Daily Mail’s analysis was conducted using a database—created in 1994 after the federal Megan’s Law was passed—requiring law enforcement to make public information regarding registered sex offenders. The news organization examined data in California through July of 2019.
“Everyone should be really upset and frightened by this,” Dordulian said.
According to Dordulian, child molesters are the least likely of criminals to be rehabilitated and are four times more likely to commit the same crime again.
“Once they’re out,” he said, “they are going to re-offend and there’s going to be another child that is victimized by these people.”
Senate Bill 357. Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in July, the measure decriminalized loitering with the intent to engage in prostitution. The bill did not officially take effect until January 1 of this year; but, from the moment it became law back in July, these women say, the on-the-ground reality changed. “The minute the governor signed it, you started seeing an uptick on the streets,” Powell said. “And on social media, the pimps were saying: ‘You better get out there and work because the streets are ours.’”
The pimps were right: police stopped making arrests for crimes that would no longer be charged. The anti-loitering statute had provided the grounds for officers to question women and children whom they suspected might be trapped in a prostitution ring. “As a police officer, you need probable cause to stop and investigate,” Powell explained. “So if I have a law that says you can’t loiter in this area, with pasties and a G-string, flagging down cars, I could stop you for that because you’re loitering. But if I just say I’m stopping you because you look kind of young, that’s a little weak. So, it takes away a tool.” Without the statute, police hands were suddenly tied. Henceforth, questioning the girls—and potentially provoking a violent confrontation with pimps—came to seem a Pyrrhic gamble, one that California’s police officers would now avoid.
The films, which include “Miss Representation,” “The Mask You Live In,” “The Great American Lie” and “Fair Play,” are licensed to taxpayer-funded schools across every state and sometimes contain sexually explicit imagery and push students to feel “shame and sorrow” about American society split by privilege and oppression. They are paired with curricula that include discussion on Gov. Newsom’s comments within the films, urging them to gather their friends and vote for aligned politicians that support a “care economy” that “embraces universal human values.”
“Former Arlington teachers union president charged with embezzlement. A former president of the Arlington teachers union, who was ousted last spring, has been charged with embezzling more than $400,000 from the organization. Ingrid Gant, 54, of Woodbridge, was arrested yesterday (Monday) in Prince William County on four counts of embezzlement.” (Hat tip: Ed Driscoll at Instapundit.)
“Thirty years ago, Guan County, Shandong Province launched the ‘Hundred Childless Days‘ campaign under the aegis of national family planning, known in the West as the ‘one-child policy.’ The birthplace of the “Boxers” was deemed to have too high a birth rate by the provincial government. County officials sought to correct this by ensuring that not a single baby was born between May 1 and August 10, 1991.” (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)
North says they do not feel safe anymore, and she believes it all ties back to the large homeless encampment located only feet away from the salon.
“Our safety started to become a big issue. We suffered from multiple break-ins. We’ve had our cars broken into. We clean up feces and needles on a weekly basis. It increased from that to, you know, people approaching us and threatening us with weapons, threatening rape, murder, all of those things,” said North.
The salon has been up and running just off Ben White Blvd. for four years now. North says she has seen an uptick in crime for a while now, but the dangerous behavior from people living in this encampment picked up recently.
“In the past year, it’s gotten increasingly worse and, in the past couple of weeks, it’s gotten to the point where I actually finally felt like this might shut my business down,” said North.
Erin Mutschler, another co-owner of the salon, says they have called the police every time they have dealt with a situation like the one caught on video, but she says police often take 45 minutes to an hour for anyone to show up.
The mayorship of Steve Adler is the gift that just keeps giving, even with him out of office… (Hat tip: Dwight.)
Follow-up: Democratic State Rep. Harold Dutton: “Don’t Blame Abbott, Houston ISD Takeover Plan Was My Idea.” (Previously.)
A Florida woman was pulled from a storm drain for the third time in two years. Maybe she was looking for David Icke’s lizard people. Also, she sounds like a real winner: “Police said her license had been suspended 17 times from 2007 to 2020.” (Previously.) (Hat tip: Dwight.)
Jay Leno broke his collarbone, several ribs and both kneecaps in a motorcycle accident. But it sounds like a freak accident: “So I turned down a side street and cut through a parking lot, and unbeknownst to me, some guy had a wire strung across the parking lot but with no flag hanging from it…I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clothesline me and, boom, knocked me off the bike.” (There’s no evidence the line was strung there by Conan O’Brien.) “But I’m OK!…I’m working this weekend.” (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Greetings, and welcome to the Friday LinkSwarm! President Trump’s approval rises among black people, more antifa behaving badly, and a look at just how badly Lebanon is screwed.
“President Trump’s approval rating among Black voters jumped by 60% during the Republican National Committee even as Democrats and progressives sought to brand the Republican president as racist. A HarrisX-Hill poll released Friday showed Mr. Trump’s net approval with Black voters from Aug. 22-25, which included the first two days of the RNC, rose to 24%, up from 15% in the pollster’s Aug. 8-11 survey.” If those numbers are accurate, and hold, all by themselves they could put Pennsylvania out of reach for Democrats, since they lost by 50,000 votes in 2016, and have to rack up huge black totals in Philadelphia to balance out their disadvantage in the rest of the state. (Hat tip: Instapundit.)
Dirtbag dirtnapped: “Michael Forest Reinoehl, 48, died in Lacey, Washington, where federal agents were attempting to take him into custody for the shooting — the same night his interview on the shooting aired on Vice News.”
President Trump is ordering the federal government to begin the process of defunding New York City and three other cities where officials allowed “lawless” protests and cut police budgets amid rising violent crime, The Post can exclusively reveal.
Trump on Wednesday signed a five-page memo ordering all federal agencies to send reports to the White House Office of Management and Budget that detail funds that can be redirected.
New York City, Washington, DC, Seattle and Portland are initial targets as Trump makes “law and order” a centerpiece of his re-election campaign after months of unrest and violence following the May killing of George Floyd by Minnesota police.
“My Administration will not allow Federal tax dollars to fund cities that allow themselves to deteriorate into lawless zones,” Trump says in the memo, which twice mentions New York Mayor Bill de Blasio by name.
“To ensure that Federal funds are neither unduly wasted nor spent in a manner that directly violates our Government’s promise to protect life, liberty, and property, it is imperative that the Federal Government review the use of Federal funds by jurisdictions that permit anarchy, violence, and destruction in America’s cities.”
The course of the nightly action against the PPB followed a fairly predictable pattern: a contingent of notional BLM protesters rendezvoused with a group of antifa black bloc at a public park close to their objective. As they moved towards the police building which was their target, “corkers” -a sort of bicycle-mounted blocking force- closed off side streets and the scouting line -typically on mopeds- moved ahead and on the flanks. Behind them came the main contingent of black bloc. Upon arrival at the PPB the streets were blocked with vehicles and burning dumpsters, with the “corkers” stationed to direct traffic away from the action and the scouts setting up a picket line extending out several blocks, watching for police reinforcements and creating the strong impression of antifa control of territory.
The black bloc then engaged in an steadily-escalating level of vandalism and property damage directed at their target, including unguarded police vehicles parked nearby. If uninterrupted, this quickly escalated to arson and serious destruction to the facilities.
By this point the scouting line often detected the flanking lines of riot police and a riot was formally been declared. Blocs armed with shields deployed defensively to allow time for the rest of the rioters to disengage. These “shield walls” provided a tempting target for a police “bull rush”, video of which can then be used for propaganda purposes. Behind the shield wall other bloc members threw commercial fireworks, frozen water bottles, and paint-filled balloons. The paint balloons are often mixed with sand or abrasive material that scratches clear shields and visors when cleaning is attempted damaging expensive riot suppression equipment. Meanwhile the main element of the antifa black bloc continued to retreat into bordering residential areas.
Antifa chooses the residential areas for specific reasons. As the police deploy flashbangs, tear gas, and assorted non-lethal munitions in order to control the ongoing riot, the disruptive effects are experienced by the local residents. Additionally, as the action moved further into the poorly-lit neighborhoods, small groups of rioters and black bloc would break off to either escape, or engage in vandalism against the original PPB target (if left unguarded) or other nearby targets of opportunity.
The action concluded at some point in the early morning hours, usually 4-5 hours after the assembly in the designated park. The location was almost always shifted to a different location every night, very rarely going to the same location on successive nights. This means it’s rare for the same location to be targeted more than twice in one week.
Plus suggested tactics on countering it.
“Flamethrower-Packing Antifa ‘Entered Fetal Position And Began Crying’ After Unsuccessful Escape From Cops.” This was in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I can’t believe I didn’t have a “flamethrower” tag until now.
Goya CEO Bob Unamue, tells Democrats that “the ‘hatred and destruction’ are moving Latinos to Trump.” Plus a comparison to communist enforcement mobs. (Hat tip: @txpoliticjunkie.)
Like a lot of observers at the time, I thought Trump had no real policy agenda to define his campaign beyond a vague pro-America sentiment and a withering disdain for the political establishments of both major parties. I thought his political inexperience was a liability, that his penchant for insulting his opponents would turn voters off, and that the GOP had missed an opportunity to defeat Hillary Clinton by nominating someone else—anyone, really, besides Trump.
But it turned out Trump was the best candidate to beat Clinton because Clinton embodied nearly everything voters had come to hate about America’s political class: the falsity, the naked hypocrisy, the barely disguised disdain for ordinary people. For all his obvious faults, Trump wasn’t a professional politician, had no record to defend, and was unconstrained by the conventions of ordinary political rhetoric. He was uniquely positioned to call out and exploit Clinton’s faults and shortcomings, and expose the contradictions at the heart of the Democratic Party.
For Republican voters, Trump offered the promise of something different from the seemingly endless pattern of politicians who promised one thing and did another, especially on immigration and free trade. For decades, incessant Republican boasting about “securing the border” never actually secured the border as mass illegal immigration continued apace. Expressions of sympathy for the American working class never produced policies that might actually help the working class. Trump zeroed in on these things, and his message resonated because it was true (and still is).
Joseph P. Kennedy III loses his senate primary to incumbent Ed Markey, who seemed to run to Kennedy’s left.
Speaking of members of the Kennedy clan running for office, NJ Democratic congressional candidate Amy Kennedy calls for lifting sanctions on Chinese companies. In one of those amazing coincidences, she also owns substantial amounts of Chinese stock. What are the odds? (Hat tip: Stephen Green at Instapundit.)
The Media Lynching of Kyle Rittenhouse. A liberal journalism professor not only omits the fact that Rittenhouse was attacked, but also thinks that the Kenosha riots will hurt Trump.
The effects of the explosion of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in the port of Beirut, Lebanon on August 4th was not restricted to 170+ deaths and 3,000+ injuries. The explosion’s metaphorical shockwaves may prove to be the death knell of Lebanon’s domestic politics and economy. Both were already collapsing from extreme corruption even before COVID struck. Add an explosion that caused billions of dollars of damage to an already bankrupt country, and the result is a failed state in the making.
Lebanon is failing in no small part because the Shia terror group Hezbollah, which translates as “Army of God,” makes its home there. Hezbollah’s continued residency and effective Lebanese governance seem to be mutually exclusive propositions.
Except calling Hezbollah merely a terror group is too simplistic, and nothing in Lebanon is ever simple or easy to explain.
Hezbollah is responsible for countless murders, kidnappings, and terror attacks, including the 1983 suicide bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Marines. But Hezbollah is also a charity operating in refugee camps. It’s a social service provider for Shia Lebanese, operating clinics, hospitals, and schools (which teach wildly anti-Semitic propaganda). It operates a satellite TV channel. It smuggles guns, sells drugs, and launders money. It has a finger in almost every pie in Lebanon, and influence in Syria, Iran, Iraq, the Northern Triangle countries of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador), and Venezuela. (Click to see the Washington Institute’s regularly updated interactive map of Hezbollah’s globe-spanning activities, and the actions taken to counter them.)
Beyond all that, Hezbollah is also a powerful paramilitary group with 30,000+ fighters, armed with tens of thousands of rockets, as well as precision munitions like guided ballistic missiles. Hezbollah fought Israel’s last incursion in Lebanon in 2006 to a standstill, and Hezbollah is often considered the winner of the clash, despite Israel’s access to the latest weapons tech.
Yet, like every other organization in Lebanon, Hezbollah is in very deep shit.
Lebanon’s current chaos is due to decades of previous chaos spawned of ongoing demographic and power shifts in the post-WWII era among Lebanon’s Maronite Christians, Sunni Muslims, Shia Muslims, and the Druze (a splinter Shia sect). The brutal Lebanese civil war fought by sectarian militias from 1975 to 1990 ended with a peace deal splitting political power along explicit sectarian lines. By law, the Shia nominate the Speaker of the Parliament, the Sunni get the Prime Minister’s Office, and the Christians select the Lebanese President. The sectarian structure of the government mandated by the peace deal effectively embedded political corruption into law. Each sect controls a piece of the Lebanese government and economy, and each has installed a patronage system dispensing favors and money to their upper echelons, with little of the wealth trickling down to the sects’ underclasses.
Enlightening, and depressing. Read the whole thing.
“Iowa Judge Voids 50,000 Absentee Ballot Requests.” “The Trump campaign argued the forms should have been blank except for the election date and type, per the Iowa secretary of state’s directions. Local officials in Linn County, which is home to Cedar Rapids, ignored those directions and sent out the applications with more information anyway.”
MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL: Wisconsin woman launches effort to recall Gov. Tony Evers (D) over unrest in Kenosha, says "We're not willing to stand by and watch our cities burn."
Here’s a Texas Public Policy Foundation roundtable on homelessness, with a focus on the problem in Austin.
I’ve cut out five minutes of nothing-at-all at the beginning.
Filmmaker Chris Rufo has produced a documentary called America Lost, and he notes it’s not a housing shortage issue. “About three-quarters of those on the street have a substance abuse problem, and about three-quarters also have some sort of mental illness.”
Michele Steeb, who ran the St. John’s homeless shelter for women and children in Sacramento, said she saw about the same ration: 80% addicted, 75% with mental illness, and 50% lack a high school diploma or GED. Neither Austin nor Sacramento has put a dent in their homeless problem. Affordable housing doesn’t do it. “Around 70% of them need deep, individualized interventions.”
Texas Republican congressman Chip Roy. “if you have perspectives that don’t involve big government programs, you’re accused of ignoring the problem.” He says that when you get the federal government involved without policy innovation, you end up with problems. Says Austin Mayor Steve Adler’s policies have made the problem a whole lot worse. “We’ve seen a 45% increase [in homelessness] from 2019 to 2020. It’s a direct result of the policies the city council adopted”
Roy: “What doesn’t work is patting yourself on the back as the leftist mayor of Austin, Texas and saying ‘Look how important I am about focusing on the homeless,’ while you’re letting the homeless suffer in the streets.”
Rufo: “If you don’t have a local government that is willing to enforce the law, create rules, and maintain public order, you’re wasting your time.”
Homeless people say they can’t get access to the services Austin provides because they fear for their safety just walking four blocks.
A man was arrested Wednesday morning after crashing a truck into the side of the FOX4 building in downtown Dallas.
The man, after repeatedly crashing his vehicle into a side of the building with floor to ceiling windows, got out of his vehicle and began ranting.
FOX4 photojournalists were able to film him placing numerous boxes next to a sidedoor filled with stacks of paper. The papers were also strewn across the sidewalk and street adjacent to the building.
Back in the dim mists of geologic Twitter time (say, five years ago), South Carolina lawyer Todd Kincannon was a must-follow.
The self-proclaimed “Honey Badger of American Politics,” Kincannon made his reputation helping put child molesters behind bars and was briefly chairman of the South Carolina GOP. On Twitter, Kincannon earned a no-holds-barred reputation attacking liberals. Instapundit once said “Punch back twice as hard.” Kincannon punched back ten times as hard. He also set up the Twitter Gulag Defense Network (TGDN), an effort to get conservatives on Twitter to follow each other to boost their subscriber numbers above a level that made it more difficult for Twitter to ban them.
Fast forward to the present. If the police report is to be believed, Kincannon killed his mother’s dog, claimed God commanded him to do it, and claimed he was the second coming of Christ.
Assuming the accuracy of the report, Mr. Kincannon is not a well man and should be confined to involuntary commitment in a mental institution until he is no longer a danger to himself and others,
It would be so much easier to explain the inexplicable if Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock had been a convert to the Islamic State.
After all, mass shootings in the name of radical Islam are a familiar phenomena. Then all the meticulous planning he put into his spree would be easy to explain as the usual modus operandi of Islamic terrorism.
Tiny problem: Right now there’s no hard evidence to support that theory. “As of now, Paddock appears to be more and more like a Jared Loughner, someone with severe mental problems who acted without political motive.”
Law enforcement officials increasingly believe Stephen Paddock, the gunman who killed and wounded concertgoers from a perch in a high-rise casino hotel last Sunday, had severe mental illness, ABC News reports.
Sources told ABC News that Paddock has been described in hundreds of interviews as standoff-sh, disconnected, and having difficulty establishing and maintaining meaningful relationships.
Authorities have still not found a definitive motive for the massacre.
“We still do not have a clear motive or reason why,” a frustrated Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said Friday. “We have looked at literally everything.”
Investigators have chased 1,000 leads and examined Paddock’s politics, his finances, any possible radicalization and his social behavior – typical investigative avenues that have helped uncover the motive in past shootings.
And nothing says “normal” quite like hiring $6,000 prostitutes to help act out your violent rape fantasies.
If Paddock had been acting for the Islamic State, we would have expected some sort of statement, such as a note or a shouted “Allah Akbar!” Those all still seem to be absent.
A bit more information on the Hsoi/John Daub self-defense shooting of autistic home invader Jared James has come to light that wasn’t in my original story.
The original news reports said things like James “forced his way onto the threshold of one of the homes.” What they actual meant was he battered at the door so hard he broke the frame:
Also, new information shows that the late Mr. James was not quite the “gentle giant” some reports tried to paint:
This fall, for reasons that she [the mother] didn’t understand, [Catalina] Leverette [the mother] said her son had developed a tendency toward unpredictable outbursts, at times running through the house yelling. She knew the police had responded to calls about her son, and newly obtained police reports show two calls in 2014 for an “emotionally disturbed person” involving James.
Also this:
“On Dec. 11, [police] took James to a psychiatric hospital under court order.”
The James shooting was a tragedy, all right, but it was a tragedy of the health system not being able to get a mentally ill man the type help he obviously needed.
