Above is the initial headline MSNBC put up this week regarding Jose Ibarra, the illegal alien found guilty of murdering 22-year-old Laken Riley. It’s pretty amazing, even for MSNBC.

Riley was the George nursing student murdered and raped in February by the member of the notorious Venezualan gang, Tren de Aragua. Iberra was illegally in the U.S. but the insane Democratic policies pandering to illegals had seemed to have worked in concert to keep him here so he could inflict maximum  carnage.

He attacked his victim while she was running on a trail at the University of Georgia campus in Athens, and the murder immediately crystalized public outrage over the Biden administration’s handling of illegal border crossings. It should have: it was a perfect tipping point for a long-running national debate that shouldn’t be a debate. While lawmakers in Georgia quickly passed  tougher rules on immigration after the killing and Trump’s supporters used the tragedy to highlight his signature issue, Democrats and the progressive extremists on MSNBC rushed to issue excuses and rationalizations to insist that illegal immigrants are mostly the salt of earth, my least favorite theme being the idiotic and deceitful argument that immigrants commit fewer crimes in proportion to their numbers than American citizens.

[Arrgh. 1. The data is misleading. 2. The issue is illegal immigrants, which the Left continues to describe as just “immigrants” so it can accuse conservatives of opposing all immigration. 3. All crimes committed by illegal immigrants should not have been committed at all and are the result of progressive open border madness and its fatuous accompanying appeal to emotion, “These are just human beings trying to have a better life for themselves and their families.” I’m sorry I mentioned this. The “fewer crimes” cheat makes me furious. I apologize for the tangent. ]

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Just two days ago Ethics Alarms featured a somewhat sarcastic post “thanking” BlueSky for “provid[ing] a wonderful way for the intolerant, doctrinaire, anti-speech progressives who have divided the country and the culture while endangering civic discourse and democracy to show exactly who and what they are.”

But seriously folks, the new Twitter/X competitor, like so many things embraced by the Angry Totalitarian Left in recent years, is another shot to the solar plexus of a functioning democracy.

Kevin Roose , the technology columnist for The New York Times and a co-host of the Times tech podcast, “Hard Fork” illustrates why the platform is so sinister while praising it in a Times column. “You may be wondering why Bluesky — an experimental social media app that was started in 2019 under Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s former chief executive, before becoming an independent company in 2021 — is attracting so much attention these days,” he writes.

No I don’t wonder at all: it’s clear as a bell on my nose. My Trump Deranged Facebook Friends have made the reasons they are fleeing to BlueSky explicit. They don’t want to be exposed to any opinions, news or events that challenge their biases and partisan assumptions. They regard anyone who doesn’t bow down to progressive cant, even as it is proving intellectually and practically bankrupt by the minute, as stupid, immoral and a blight on existence. BlueSky is the web equivalent of joining a cult or a commune.

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And so it begins. Starting today, as I already wrote about at excessive length here, I enter a period of involuntary nostalgia, regret and sadness, beginning with today’s anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, followed tomorrow by my first wedding anniversary in 43 years with no marriage to celebrate. Maybe this explains why I have even less sympathy for my Facebook friends still weeping, raging and making asses of themselves over the election loss by the worst major Presidential candidate in at least 150 years. Let’s see what they’re up to [I’m checking Facebook….]

Oh! It’s stupid meme day! One FBF posted this meme inspired by Communist Robert Reich…

George Soros and Bill Gates, of course, are purely benign in their use of their resources. Another posts this trenchant commentary:

Ugh. Please do better…

Rob Reiner has puzzled me for a long, long time. He can’t be stupid; his father Carl  was a brilliant writer and comic, quick on his feet, witty, and able to hold his own with Mel Brooks, Woody Allen and Neil Simon. Rob was once an excellent film director: “This Is Spinal Tap (1984), “The Sure Thing” (1985), “Stand by Me” (1986), “The Princess Bride” (1987), “When Harry Met Sally,” (1989), “Misery (1990), and “A Few Good Men” (1992). I’m also an excellent director, so maybe I’m inclined to assume that talent is linked to intelligence. But Reiner’s success in Hollywood has crashed as his partisan progressive fervor has slipped into fanaticism.

His Ethics Alarms dossier is frightening. In 2022, he actually tweeted this,

and didn’t expect to be laughed at. His Trump Derangement worsened, resulting in this tweet

and later, when he denied on Bill Maher’s HBO show that the press buried the Hunter Biden laptop story and then deflected to, “You know it’s not justified? Using armed violence to try to kill people in the Capital. That’s not justified!” I wrote at the time,” So many once intelligent people are like Reiner now. Isn’t that frightening? Don’t some Americans, the ones who aren’t too far gone, hear a celebrity talk like that and think, “Wait…I’m on the same side as that guy? Do I sound like that? What’s happened to me?”

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