by Karl Denninger, Market Ticker:

Let’s all hear about Floyd, who the coroner said had a significant dose of fentanyl in his system when he died.  The notes on the coroner’s report show that the level in his blood was more than three times that are often sufficient to produce death.

Oh by the way, opiate overdose often produces a crazed and physically-agitated mental state just before it produces respiratory and subsequent cardiac arrest.  Are you sure the cops killed him again or was he, for all intents and purposes, already dead?  Good question, considering that the autopsy disclosed no damage to the structures of his neck.  Whether the cops killed him or he died of an OD is an open question (and one that should be resolved through a trial in a civilized nation) but the often-repeated claim that he had “turned his life around” after multiple violent felonies, including threatening to kill a pregnant woman for which he was convicted — is clowned by the fact that he had fentanyl in him — and no known reason for a prescription to take same.

The facts are, as disclosed by science, that he was indeed likely a frequent, repeated and current abuser of said drugs or someone poisoned him.  I’ll take odds on the former.

Now is being a drug addict an excuse for manslaughter or worse?  No, although if you abuse opioids for long enough they’ll eventually get you without anyone else’s help.  The reason is that the more you use them the more you need to get stoned, yet the lethal dose moves up less-quickly.  Thus if you like such drugs you eventually get into a “coffin corner” sort of problem where the amount you need to get high is dangerously close or even exceeds the amount that will kill you.  But finding such a level of said drugs in your system when you expire leads to perfectly-valid questions about the reason for your demise.  You can’t murder someone who’s already in the process, through the actions of their own hand, of imminently becoming dead.

The lie advanced by “Black Lives Matter” was on full display this weekend across the nation.  As just one example Chicago had 14 people killed and nearly 100 shot over the weekend, with 137 shot in the last week.  Anyone care to take a guess at the race of the people shot?  Oh, you mean of the dead people blacks are roughly 15 times more-likely to be shot and killed than whites?  And of the shooters, not all that different — among those known, which is a whole different problem of course, since it seems that identifying and locking up the shooters is a wee problem.

And it’s not like the cops are catching all these people; hell, only 3% of carjackings lead to arrests.  Oh, who’s doing the carjacking — and the shooting?  Is that white people again?

Who runs the Chicago cops?  What’s his race?  How about the mayor?  That’s the chain of command.

Do Black Lives Matter?  If they do can I please have an explanation why one dead apparent junkie is worth rioting, looting and all manner of protest but nearly 100 people shot and 14 dead in one city alone over one weekend, nearly all of them black and nearly all of them shot and killed by other black people, is not?

What in the Hell are you smoking and why is the rest of the nation allowing local governments and nearly all of the S&P 500 to get behind and force upon everyone what is quite-clearly nothing more than pure Marxism?  Do you realize what happens after, when power is consolidated, right?  Every one of the people who “corroborated” with these folks will be killed; your usefulness will have expired.

You don’t read history, do you?  This isn’t the first time that playbook has been run.

You want to get rid of the cops eh?  Sounds good to me.  You fine folks who like to shoot each other have right at it with no law enforcement at all.  We’ll see how long you have food and other necessities delivered into your areas when there are no cops.  Got a fire, perhaps accidental and perhaps not?  You don’t really think the fire department is going to show up and put it out when people are shooting at them, do you?  Let’s remember that what got “CHOP”ped over the weekend was apparently three people getting shot in a little six-block area.  Oh, and there were no cops of course and none let in either, so there have also been no arrests.  Do we dare count the rapes, assaults and thefts?

Naw, it’s all good and it’s Whitey-McWhite responsible for all of it.  Never mind who in their right mind believes that in a NASCAR team track garage, one of if not the highest-security areas within the boundaries of the track property for obvious reasons along with the plethora of cameras everywhere, “someone” magically made a noose appear?

What’s more-likely — someone has a cloak of invisibility or we have another Smollett style scam on our hands?

I’ll give you odds on that one.

Incidentally if “Black Lives Matter”, just for ****s-and-grins, would you please explain to me all of the following?

• The sacking of General Grant’s statute by “BLM”.  May I note that in addition to being a Union General during the Civil War Grant also, after the war, went into the South and under force of arms made damn sure all the former slaves were freed.  In  other words, the exact opposite of a racist who hates black people, and he was willing to back up what he believed with armed force too.


• Why aren’t they tearing down every monument and edifice of Muhammad yet they want any edifice of Jesus removed?  Muhammad was the one of the most-prolific slave-owners and traffickers in history.  See a pattern here yet between these and Grant?  They don’t want slavery to go away — they want to enslave you!


• The State and City of New York?  Named after the Duke of York, of course.  Who owned The Royal African Company, which, I remind you, was responsible for the shipping of more black slaves into the Americas than any other institution, and was noted for its extraordinary brutality.  Has “BLM” insisted on canceling Britain and both the State of New York and New York City?  Oh wait, there’s another example glorifying slavers.  Still can’t see the pattern?


• You want to remove Aunt Jemima from syrup bottles and rename the brand?  Really?  Do you have any idea who that woman is on the label?  A literal former slave, she parleyed her love of tasty food into a fortune.  A real fortune.  She was one of the first freed black Americans to become a millionaire, and in the 1920s when she did so, her fortune would be approximately equal to $15 million in purchasing power today.  She was given exactly none of her money or fame through anything other than her own hard work, effort and intelligence — no “set-asides”, “quotas” or “affirmative action.”  If there is someone who black people should celebrate on a literal daily basis as a shining beacon of success, a person who proved that intelligence, hard work and personal drive can indeed bring personal prosperity irrespective of the conditions one is born into it’s Nancy Green, the actual woman in question.  Arguing for removing her visage and name, along with the brand, is arguing for the cancellation of her proved record of extraordinary personal success through hard work by black people!  YOU STILL CAN’T SEE THE PATTERN?


• If children cannot be held accountable for the criminal and outrageous acts of their parents, as the left, Marxists, Democrats and BLM assert with regard to “DREAM”ers, then neither can the several-times removed great-grandchildren or even further removed descendants be held accountable for their great-grandparent’s actions with regard to slavery, segregation or any other act prior to the Civil Rights Act in the United States which made all such acts unlawful.  Which, of course means, no reparations, no special set-asides, no quotas, no “affirmative action” and all such previous acts that date after the passage of the Civil Rights Act are and were in fact unlawful thefts which must be immediately repaid in full, to the penny, with interest.  If you disagree and refuse to pay said debts then by your own standard every “DREAM”er is accountable in full for their parents unlawful acts, as are any and all of their offspring, every single one of them is in fact an unlawful enemy invader and their offspring are not citizens and every single one of them and their children must get out of OUR nation right the **** now, without exception.

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