Source: The Atlantic.

Were I to tell you we are living through an orchestrated color revolution in America, I would be called a conspiracy theorist, the moniker intended to discredit the observation. But here is a presumably mainstream publication drawing the exact same parallel.

The best way to understand this piece — especially it’s unabashed triumphalism — is as recruitment propaganda. Seen in that light, the piece is truly pathetic.

It is a last gasp, a dying breath, the wretched effort of the losing side to reclaim whatever is left of its dignity. Given the options before us in November, the “regime” is not likely to be toppled.

Washington Times: Outrage

By employing the conspirators to weigh in on their own malfeasance.

Lisa Page hired as legal analyst by MSNBC  

That will certainly shed a fair light on the weaponization of the DOJ and intelligence services.

Journalism is dead

No rioting.  No looting.  No cops.  Causality?  Well, correlated.

Source: Marginal Revolution.

Tyler Cowen shares a note from Twitter:

To put it another way: dentist offices account for a full 10 percent of the jobs gained last month across the entire American economy. https://t.co/26xq1G9VrF

— Sarah Kliff (@sarahkliff) June 5, 2020

Source: American Thinker.

The parable of the ox in this piece is worth the price of admission. It reveals a fundamental truth of economics which — as an aside — divides the classical theorists into two camps, the Smithians and the Marxians.

Source: ZeroHedge.

“Regardless of whether or not you think someone’s opinion is a conspiracy theory, you owe it to yourself and your children to consider the evidence they cite. Perhaps you will reject it. There’s nothing wrong with that.

“But to reject it, without knowing what it is, really is crazy. Your only other option is to unquestioningly accept whatever you are told by the government, globalist think tanks, multinational corporations and their mainstream media partners.”

https://theweek.com/cartoons/918193/editorial-cartoon-trump-no-american-leadership

Posted without comment, as no comment needed.

https://www.businessinsider.com/unidentified-prison-agents-patrol-dc-amid-protests-curfew-2020-6

Heavily armed personnel with no identifying insignia and refusing to answer a simple question: “Who are you with?” Is the plan of confusing Americans yet again really what we should expect going forward?

Watching the video again is well worth the minutes it takes to look it up on any of the news sites.  What is seen when that solitary man, groceries in hand, stops that line of tanks to defend the protesters in Tiananmen Square from a military advance is nothing less than an amazing act of courage.  No one could deny that.

On the other hand, in the Pentagon, this is also seen as a dangerously mammoth breakdown in discipline — a true Capt. John Yossarian moment — by that tank crew.  The fates of the man and the tank crew are unknown, a totalitarian advantage.

In our democracy, with cameras rolling, all it could take is for one soldier, unwilling to harm or kill a fellow countryman, to initiate the collapse of a trillion dollar army.