The Left Declared Competence a Civil-Rights Violation The left has reached the point where requiring a police officer to read is considered racial discrimination. Maryland State Police used a neutral examination to determine whether applicants possessed the basic skills needed to write reports and perform police work. Black applicants failed at higher rates. The Biden Justice Department responded by attacking the examination and helping produce a settlement approaching $3 million. The test did not ask anyone’s race. The department did not exclude anyone because of race. Applicants were measured against the same standard. Under disparate-impact ideology, equality itself became the offense because equality failed to manufacture the desired result. This doctrine requires society to abolish every standard that exposes a disparity. Police examinations become discriminatory. Teacher examinations become discriminatory. Academic requirements become discriminatory. Any measurement of competence remains acceptable only until it measures competence. The humiliation imposed on black Americans is difficult to overstate. The same people who call themselves anti-racists have constructed an ideology based on the assumption that black applicants cannot be expected to meet ordinary standards. They then demand that the standards disappear and congratulate themselves for their compassion. A sane civil-rights movement would insist that every child receive the education required to meet high expectations. The modern left protects failing institutions, lowers the expectations and accuses anyone who notices the decline of racism. How are normal people expected to share a functioning civilization with ideologues who believe that the ability to read should become negotiable when hiring police officers? Roads, hospitals, schools, courts and public-safety agencies depend on competence. Reality does not accept an equity exemption. A police report filled with errors does not become accurate because the officer was hired through a socially approved process. Disparate-impact ideology has converted failure into evidence against the test, incompetence into victimhood and standards into contraband. Every bad result produces the same administrative solution... lower the requirement, punish the institution and invoice the taxpayer. The left would rather abolish qualification than admit that anyone failed to qualify. The public will eventually discover the cost while depending on the people they declared competent by eliminating the evidence that they were not.

Sep 1, 2020: "🚨 "THE RED MIRAGE"... Exclusive: Bloomberg group warns that Trump could win electoral college and popular vote on election night -- potentially in landslide -- then lose when mail votes counted" xitter.cf/mikeallen/status/13007…

“Track two, at exactly the same time, on exactly the same calendar, they delegitimize the Supreme Court itself, leak by leak, op-ed by op-ed, podcast by podcast, building the public permission to strip it, pack it, gut it, and rebuild it. And when they get their next political window, they ram the changes through. They stack the new Court with Bowie and Matz and the rest. And then they use that remade Court to write their policy preferences into constitutional law forever. Abortion as a constitutional right. Federal control of elections as a constitutional mandate. Open borders, "disinformation" speech regulation, no voter ID anywhere, all locked in as constitutional law. Once that happens, no Republican Congress, no Republican president, no Republican election can undo it. Permanent progressive rule, guaranteed not by winning elections, which they can't, but by controlling the institution that overrules elections. That is the endgame."

“As a Welcoming City, Chicago will continue to stand with our immigrant neighbors, families and communities.”

Where were Ted Lieu and Adam Schiff while their longtime mega-donor and friend, Ed Buck, was murdering Black men across Los Angeles? Buck was pumping them full of lethal meth injections until they overdosed… then raped their corpses. He operated with impunity for years while the community screamed for help and got nothing. Buck’s own driver said he routinely delivered thick envelopes of cash from Buck straight to politicians like Schiff and Lieu. All of this played out in real time while Schiff, Lieu, and their sexual predator sidekick Eric Swalwell barnstormed every microphone calling Trump Putin’s puppet and waving around their “ironclad” collusion “evidence.”