Hollywood actors emerge to virtue signal from their mansions, debate renews over statues,

and Seattle's New Republic of Wokeness experiences some early growing pains.

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ExpressVPN.com slash men. All righty. So it's been an interesting 24 hours and it seems like

the narrative is beginning to shift a little bit. And one of the reasons the narrative is beginning

to shift is because everything that starts off as a legitimate cause eventually becomes a grift for a

certain number of people. And that doesn't mean that the vast majority of people who are involved in protesting police brutality are not sincere. I think that they are

sincere. And I think protesting police brutality is worthwhile, just like every other human being,

because every good person, including police officers, opposes police brutality, which is why it is

a statistical rarity to uncover a case in which a police officer

does something as egregious as what happened with George Floyd. Again, to cite the statistics,

which I know everybody doesn't like to cite because we have to instead make the miasmatic argument

that police generally across the nation are engaged in brutality and violence. The number of

unarmed black men shot by the police, according to the Washington Post last year, was nine. That is a statistical anomaly. That does not mean that every one of those cases was not a tragedy. I don't know the details of all those cases, but I'm sure that most of them were tragedy. It doesn't mean the case of Brianna Taylor isn't a travesty. It is an absolute travesty. The Brianna Taylor case, first of all, I'm not sure why Brianna Taylor isn't the face of this movement as opposed to George Floyd, other than the Brianna Taylor thing wasn't caught on tape. And the Brianna Taylor thing, to me, and George Floyd thing is egregious. It's an atrocity. The Brianna Taylor thing is even worse. I mean, the Brianna Taylor thing, she was sleeping in her own apartment, and the police served to no knock warrant and then shot her in her bed. I mean, that one is like beyond. That one is beyond. And how those officers are still not under

arrest is absolutely beyond me. I mean, it's crazy. But put that aside, what we have now reached

is the point in the narrative where hangers on have started to take control of the narrative.

And you can sense it. You can sense that the hangers on, the people who were not to take control of the narrative, and you can sense it.

You can sense that the hangers on, the people who were not at the core of the protest, and were also not the radicals who were always using protests in order to push ridiculous agendas that most

Americans didn't want.

The people who, in other words, had been sitting aside, those people have jumped into the

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