“Did my client show up to a track meet with a knife? Yes. Did he purposely go to the wrong tent? Yes. Was he asked to leave 15 times? Yes. Did he say he’s not leaving? Yes. Did he have the knife in his hand before anyone touched him? Yes…..Dammit, is it too late to take a plea?”
@SteveLovesAmmo MFers tailgating you when they can clearly see other vehicles got you boxed in and you got nowhere to go. I'm talking like 3 ft at 80 mph.
Can we be even more honest than my last post?
Most black people don’t possess an appreciation for truth… Like, the actual truth.
We like to (almost exclusively) affirm truth after we find out it coincides with our desires or identity. It is very hard to run a civil and lawful society this way. The more I see these responses about Karmelo and Austin, the more obvious it becomes.
The handful of black folks who do want to get at the real truth are considered self-haters. This is not because they actually hate themselves, but because the large majority of vocal black commentators cannot fathom truth outside of its instrumental use in furthering personal agendas. These vocal commentators interpret a black person being lenient (really, just fair) toward whites as being part of a white agenda. They do so because that is how they operate on their end of the spectrum. It is really sad.
By contrast, many white folks come from a history steeped in explicit and hotly contested philosophical schools of thought — There is even a subfield (epistemology) dedicated to understanding knowledge and how it applies to our statements/the nature of truth. This field, in the academically respected analytic tradition, is dominated by whites.
Where is our African American equivalent? Please, don’t mention lived-experience or group-based epistemologies to me.
It is almost pointless for groups deeply wedded to distinct philosophical or cultural histories to try to have a conversation on collective social and moral resolutions. Our differing foundational attitudes prevent us from experiencing the same reality, despite living alongside one another.
There will be no solution so long as this continues. We have to engage in real conversations about this incompatibility.
The same people that said Kyle Rittenhouse wasn’t using self-defense when he shot a man that was literally pointing a gun at him and about to execute him are now saying that Karmelo Anthony was using self-defense because Austin Metcalf lightly touched his shoulder.
It’s insane.
Rick Chow spent 3 years behind bars after shooting a black teen in self-defense.
He has now been acquitted.
Many in the black community are outraged.
But where was that concern for Cyrus Carmack-Belton when he was robbing stores & carrying a gun?
😂 Update on that “Houston man” who turned Bush Airport into a full-blown comedy special yesterday:
Y’all DRAGGED me for reporting exactly what authorities and every local Houston news outlet were pushing in their initial releases: a “Houston man” / Houston resident sneaks through TSA with a fake boarding pass.
Trust me, I laughed just as hard as y’all at that headline.
There’s more of a chance of me winning the Powerball while getting struck by lightning on the same day, than this dude actually being a born-and-raised US citizen.
I called bullshit the second I saw it, but I still had to drop the facts as authorities handed them to the media at the time.
Now Nigerian media is PROUDLY claiming their 25-year-old king, Abdulrahman Oluwatumike Oriyomi, for the ultimate Nollywood airport heist: fake pass, TSA stroll, wrong seat, hopping bathrooms like a pro, fake name, and grounding the whole United flight to LA for 3 hours.
I reported the facts exactly as authorities released them at the time… but we all knew the truth was coming.
Who else saw this one from a mile away? ✈️🤡
🚨REPORT🚨
The Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency recently raised Israel’s counterintelligence threat level to the highest “critical” designation amid concerns that Israeli espionage against the U.S. has become more aggressive than usual.
I asked the Pentagon for comment regarding this NBC News report and they declined.
This action stems from worries that Israel is intensifying efforts to surveil senior U.S. officials and gather information on the Trump administration’s internal deliberations regarding the Middle East conflicts, particularly the war with Iran.
The heightened alert coincides with tensions between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu over strategy in the Iran war and operations in Lebanon, including a recent tense phone call.
Andrew Jackson destroyed the Second Bank of the United States in 1836, delivering the single greatest blow to financial tyranny in American history. You won't hear this story told correctly in any economics textbook, because it reveals how central banking works: as a government-sponsored cartel that redistributes wealth from productive citizens to politically connected bankers.
The Second Bank held a 20-year federal charter starting in 1816. It controlled the money supply, issued currency, and held government deposits. Sound familiar? Nicholas Biddle, the bank's president, wielded more economic power than any elected official. He could trigger financial panics at will by restricting credit. He bought newspapers and bribed congressmen. When Jackson opposed recharter in 1832, Biddle deliberately crashed the economy to punish him.
Jackson called it "a hydra of corruption" and he was right. The bank created artificial booms through credit expansion, then triggered busts when politically convenient. Biddle openly bragged about manipulating markets. Free market economists and Jackson both recognized the core insight: this was legalized counterfeiting with government backing, not free market banking.
The political establishment united against Jackson. Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and the entire Whig Party defended the bank. Biddle spent millions buying influence. The press attacked Jackson as an economic ignoramus. Every "respectable" voice supported recharter. Jackson stood alone with the American people.
After Jackson killed the bank, the country experienced the strongest economic growth in its history. From 1837 to 1862, America operated without a central bank. Industry flourished. Wages rose. Innovation exploded. This wasn't coincidence. When you stop subsidizing financial speculation and let productive capital find its natural home, prosperity follows.
Central banks don't stabilize economies: they destabilize them for private gain.