It's pointless to try to placate the jackboots

These people are absolute totalitarians. Kim Jong-un would be impressed with their chops.

We have four instances today. In three of them, we have attempts to self-immolate and earn the good graces of the overlords.

Forget it. You can't genuflect sufficiently for these goons.

There's the latest development in the Philly Starbucks situation:

Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson immediately pulled out all the stops for damage control. He visited the two men to apologize personally and instituted a rule that all Starbucks employees must be trained to deal with their own racial biases.

Of course, none of this has the social justice crowd satiated. They don’t just want an apology and a solution, they want Starbucks’ soul.

The Omega Psi Phi fraternity whose fraternity brother, Rashon Nelson, was one of the persons arrested in Starbucks, held a rally attended by some 100 protesters demonstrating against “racial injustice” at the same Starbucks on Sunday. It was there that a city councilman gave a speech demanding more from Starbucks.
According to Yahoo News,

“The actions of the Starbucks corporation are totally unacceptable,” Philadelphia Councilman Kenyatta Johnson told protesters Sunday. “We know they said they’re going to move forward and specifically focus on a training that deals with unconscious bias, but that’s a one-day training.

“We want to see how they’re going to change their culture as it relates to racial insensitivity and also diversity and inclusion as it relates to making sure that everyone who comes to a Starbucks store that lives in the city of Philadelphia should feel welcome,” he added. 

Then there's the Twitter photo of Jay Feely, who is a sports commentator for CBS and was a placekicker for several NFL teams, making the rounds. It shows his daughter and her prom date, a guy she's been dating for a year and who is warmly regarded by the Feely family, with Feely standing in between them, holding a handgun. Everybody's smiling. The prom-goers, very nice-looking kids, are clearly in on the joke. The tweet says, "wishing my beautiful daughter and her date a great time at prom." It's Feely's take on the age-old understanding that dads like to make it clear that anybody who dates their daughters better understand that respect is a requirement of doing so.

He wound up having to subsequently post this:

The prom picture I posted was obviously intended to be a joke. My Daughter has dated her boyfriend for over a year and they knew I was joking. I take gun safety seriously (the gun was not loaded and had no clip in) and I did not intend to be insensitive to that important issue

I say "having to" because the howls were incessant.

What I find particularly vomit-inducing here is the number of "mainstream" outlets that felt the need to put "a joke" in quotes in their headlines.

Then there's country music star Shania Twain, who opined in an interview with the UK Guardian that, had she been a US citizen, she might well have voted for Donald Trump for president in the 2016 election. (She's Canadian.) Not because she aligns with him across the board on matters of policy (that would be hard to do, given his utter lack of any policy consistency), but because she found his unfiltered style of expression bracing.

The goose-steppers got to her:

"I would have voted for him because, even though he was offensive, he seemed honest," the newspaper quoted her as saying. "Do you want straight or polite? Not that you shouldn't be able to have both. If I were voting, I just don't want bulls**t. I would have voted for a feeling that it was transparent. And politics has a reputation of not being that, right?" Twain said.

But late Sunday the country star tweeted a four-part apology.

"I would like to apologise to anybody I have offended in a recent interview with the Guardian relating to the American President. The question caught me off guard. As a Canadian, I regret answering this unexpected question without giving my response more context ," Twain said.

Okay, these three examples of people who rolled over and exposed their underbellies and basically told the overlords, "Claw out my entrails if you must. I'm so ashamed for even existing." are dismaying in the extreme.

So far, Kanye West is holding his own against the firestorm that has erupted in the aftermath of his daring to have an independent viewpoint on something:

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Superstar rapper Kanye West praised conservative commentator Candace Owens on Saturday after she shut down a Black Lives Matter protest during an event at UCLA.

Owens, the communications director for Turning Point USA, said she believes an "ideological civil war" is happening with African-American people.

She said some African-Americans "are focused on their past and shouting about slavery" and that others are "focused on their futures."

"Victim mentality is not cool. I don't know why people like being oppressed," she added. "'We're oppressed! Four-hundred years of slavery! Jim Crow!' By the way, none of you guys lived through [that]," she said to protesters. "Your grandparents did and it's embarrassing that you utilize their history. You're not living through anything right now."

West tweeted his support for Owens, saying "I love the way Candace Owens thinks."

Owens said Sunday on "Fox & Friends" that after West's tweet, she received a great amount of backlash.

"In about 10 seconds I became the KKK member, anti-LGBT, you name it," she said. "Just because I think differently and I refuse to accept this narrative that I'm a victim. I'm not a victim."

Owens said she told the Black Lives Matter protesters that they were welcome at the Turning Point USA event and could get in line to ask any questions. She said, though, they refused to do that and instead heckled her.

"I took them on because I believe that their ideas are poisonous. I also believe that they are intellectually dishonest," she said.

Owens also said that the left wants African-American people to be focused on their past and not their futures.

"They like black people to be government-dependent," she said.

Owens said that she wanted to thank West for his words, and that they were an "affirmation" that she needed "to go forward." 

Sense a pattern here, people?

Of course you do. It's been going on for at least fifty years, at least since the brats of the spring of 1968 took over the administrative offices at Columbia University and demanded all kinds of curriculum changes and other dog vomit.

Lately, because I have been earnestly trying to see if there wasn't some subatomic particle of common humanity left in post-America, I'd been backing off of "cultural civil war" type rhetoric. But it's useless. That's exactly where we are.

I know I have to proceed with a Christian heart. But make no mistake. The Left is the enemy of all that is decent, dignified, sensible, true, good and right. They will not stop until we are ground under the heels of their jackboots.

This will require courageous choices. Check the resilience of your spine.