They knew it because our Professional Journalists and lots of academics

have been buying their crap and pushing it for literal generations.  And show no signs of stopping.

Borrowing from Insty,

...For the same reason that Ted Kennedy knew that same media had his back when he was smearing Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearings/show trial in 1991:

I liked political theater, so I watched that initially rooting for Clarence Thomas to be taken down. By the very end, I believed the seeds of my future were planted right there when I realized that Ted Kennedy knew something. What did he know that he could ask Clarence Thomas these questions of a man who came from humble beginnings as an African-American? What did he know about the media? What did he know about the political process? What did he know about Hollywood? That they would side with a known Lothario with Chappaquiddick, you know, in his background. That they would allow for him and his allies in the Democratic Party to ask this man in the realm of privacy have you ever rented any pornography. Do you know who Long Dong Silver is? It was so obvious that this was a takedown that eventually I started to see things through what I called the Democrat Media Complex.

—Andrew Breitbart, in conversation with Peter Robinson, April, 2009.

Another clearing

shorter than I'd wanted, but I'm falling over here.  So here we go

Adults only below the break, if you please

I think this definitely counts as

Africa Wins Again

Sort-of official number of firearms in the US,

which I think are low.  Possibly quite low, especially when you consider how many antique firearms are still around and working, and the people who wouldn't answer questions about what/how many they own.

Because I am so graceful, I've been recovering

from falling down some stairs.  Oh no, not at the house, somewhere on steel stairs.*  Which has been various levels of painful, but between time, heat & cold alternating at times, and taking it easy**, it's been improving.

I hate crap like this.

*Assisted by trying to carry too much stuff at once, and a nasty north wind

**And, somehow, not doing some kind of damaging demanding repair work

Well, Ms. Bondi, it shouldn't be pending,

it should already have been swept away.  So start sweeping, dammit.

Know someone with ADHD?

This just might be of help.

According to this on-line culture reporter,

if you notice the non-politically correct information about this mass murderer, you're a transphobe.  And noticing some things about other murders, like that of Charlie Kirk, makes you worse.

Overall I like Rand Paul,

but sometimes I think he screws things up, and Kim has advice for him on the subject of ICE.

Now ask the question:  Did you think that this was going to be easy?  Did you think that these violent assholes were just going to submit meekly to ICE agents and comply with their lawful actions?  Of course they wouldn’t, and haven’t.  They’ve been resisting ICE with all their might — in one case, deserting his own 5-year-old child to make his escape — and at all stages, these criminals have been assisted in their resistance by the efforts of Marxist scum in (surprise, surprise) Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.

Oh yeah, maybe ICE has lost the “public trust”, in those Marxist hellholes and strongholds.  In the rest of the country, where local law enforcement has been helping ICE remove the cancer?  Not so much.

'Epstein, a convenient distraction from the Asian grooming gangs'

I can see that; it gives the left and the anti-white people someone to scream about instead of the muslim sex slavery gangs.

Commenter pointed to this.  It's a good site for news from Britain.

Well, unless they can figure a way to blame this on Trump, down the memory hole

it will go

'Female'.  'Gunwoman in a dress'.  Jeez.

Well, yeah

Among the 'elites', at least

Short version: the left is losing power, and they're getting desperate

Found at Insty, interesting reading

Two things: the first is, to borrow from, Capstick,

Africa wins again

The second is  well, yeah

No, I don't want one

for myself, but I'll bet they sell a lot of them.

Commenter Orr left a link to this,

had seen something on this the other day, this from Rebel News:

The communist government warned international airlines they can no longer refuel at its main airport in Havana for the next month after Donald Trump threatened tariffs on any nation that supplies Cuba with oil. A-1 jet fuel won’t be available at Jose Marti International Airport beginning Tuesday through March 11, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said in a notice Sunday.

The fuel supply situation on Cuba is critical, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday, according to news agency Interfax. However, he didn’t specify whether Moscow is planning to provide oil products to the island.

Russia’s largest airline, Aeroflot, cancelled its Monday commercial flight to Cuba and instead sent the empty plane to pick up stranded tourists, Russia’s tour operators association said in a statement. Aeroflot flights to Cuba have been suspended until late March, it added. The group estimates there are about 4,500 Russians vacationing on the island at present.

Nicaragua, meanwhile, altered its immigration rules to block Cuban citizens from entering the Central American country without a visa. Nearly one in five Cuban residents has fled the island over the past decade amid a worsening economic crisis.

Cuba, I once described to my kids as 'An island in a sea full of fish, with year-round growing seasons, and full of people not afraid to work, and they've made everyone except the Party faithful poor and hungry.'

That line about 'What can't last forever, won't' covers their mess nicely.

I ran across this a couple of years ago, lost track of it, and just found it again, what DID happen to the buffalo? (added)

Interesting argument that the buffalo hunters did real damage, but not the main cause of those numbers dying.

“When that management was removed, the bison critically overpopulated and damaged the vegetation. Then you had crowded, starving bison in a severely degraded range that couldn’t begin to support them. That meant that their immunity was gone, and epidemic could rage unchecked. The most fascinating thing is that tick fever and anthrax both seem to be native here. Bison had suffered from them for maybe thousands of years without ever being driven extinct by them. But once they were no longer managed, once their range was destroyed from neglect, then the weakened bison were wiped out by familiar diseases.”Dr. Sierra Stoneberg Holt

Added: Commenter left this link which has some more information

When someone working at being an actual reporter shows what sorry bastards

the people running CBS- along with most of their Professional Journalists- are.

I had a chance to try something the other day,

a AR15 with a Partisan forced-reset trigger.  True drop-in trigger mechanism, no gunsmithing required, and yeah it worked.  Nicely.

Definitely fits into the category of 'Fun at turning money into noise'.

Added: it's the kind of thing I'd like to own just because the gun bigots and hoplophobes are so pissed that commoners might have such things.

Two Swedes, right

But I thought all the racists were Republicans or conservatives in general?

Apparently not.

Which, if you've paid attention to a lot of the stuff Democrats and 'progressives' throw out, not exactly a surprise.

My, isn't it interesting who all and where the Epstein releases

are burning?

They're also idiots, but the WHO is a bunch of bastards

who said we couldn't have our flag without their permission, which means "Give us a bunch of money."

Guess what?

They still say we don't have their permission.  I say "The Marines didn't blow up the place or hang any of you on their way out, so you'd better go with that."

Also in the list of idiots is leftists in Minnesota

 who, as the View put it,

Amazing, isn't it?  I'll bet if these asshats would tell the truth they'd say that if someone raped their daughter or wife they'd want them dead; but the idea of ICE catching illegal alien rapists(and murderers, and thieves and so forth) just pisses them off.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

The Olympics seems to have become

'Go to another country and crap on the US day' for lots of US athletes.

Screw 'em.  Freeze in the snow, asshats.

Just a short clearing tonight,

because I need to take care of some things