Yeonmi Park is, if I have the story straight, a North Korean woman who was sold into sexual slavery in China. She had many owners. Somehow she defected to America and learned English. Since she went public with her story, her family in North Korea has disappeared.

She asks why Black Lives Matter is so upset about slavery that ended long ago, but don’t care about slavery going on today. I reached out:

Dear Ms. Yeonmi Park,

I am very sorry for your personal suffering, for your family, and for your people. I am writing to help you understand the situation in America.

America has grown very sick. The sickness is Marxism. In America, we have had what they call a Progressive movement for about 100 years. Not all Progressives think of themselves as Marxists, but Progressives share with Marxists the desire for unlimited political power. Early in the twentieth century, the Progressive movement paved the way for Marxists to infiltrate the schools and other institutions. They have now trained several generations of Americans to think in the warped moral ways of Marxism. Worst of all, these “educated” people control the mass media, social media, Silicon Valley, huge swaths of the financial markets, and more than half of the Federal government.

You know about Communism better than I do. What I know about Communism is that it is Rule by Terror. That’s what Communism is, that’s all it is, that’s all it can ever be. Many Marxists in America do not understand this. They are what Lenin called the “useful idiots”. They actually believe that Communism would make a more just and equal society. But Communism is Terrorism, and nothing else.

American mass media depict Antifa and BLM as peaceful protesters in a cause aimed at justice and reform. But BLM is a straight-up Communist front. They are the terrorist wing of the Terrorist movement, their leadership is explicitly Marxist, and their agenda is to end the rule of law in America. They have limitless funding from wealthy Marxist allies, as well as from China. BLM do not help black communities. They destroy black communities, black businesses, black livelihoods, black families. Everywhere BLM appears, they are followed by sharp increases in violent crime and street crime, plummeting property values, blight and decay.

BLM don’t protest about Hong Kong, or the Uighur genocide, or the slave trade. They see China or even North Korea as a model. They want it to be that way here. Don’t be fooled into thinking BLM is a sincere movement for justice and reform. They are liars, cheaters, thieves, murderers, thirsting for absolute power.

Thank you for your time. You are very very brave and I wish you Peace, Prosperity, and Happiness.

This will be the final installment in the series. This came from another Cracked contest, where the challenge was to make an advertisement for the worst thing:

That made no impression, so I upped the ante:

That got downvoted. I guess it is kind of cringe, but so is a lot of stuff at Cracked.

Okay, you broke me, I confess it. I used to participate in the Photoplasty contests at cracked.

It was interesting and fun, I won’t deny it. I learned sophisticated tricks of deception with the GNU Image Manipulation Program. I also learned a lot about how online communities work and how they enforce their norms. I’m not being satirical; it was instructive.

Of course, cracked is Woke, and I’m not, so there was bound to be friction. To their credit and mine I resigned with a positive karma score. Barely. In the meantime I racked up a treasure-trove of rejections.

Photoplasty is a contest. Participants suggest Challenges, and the Top Editor approves and sets the rules for each week’s game. Sometime the rules are stupidly strict. Movies, especially recent movies, are the favored playing-ground. Typical challenges all follow the same patterns:

• Mash two movies together to make something better
• Rip apart one movie to reveal something comical
• Do something clever to turn one movie into the movie of your choice

Mash two movies together to make something better. I tried four times. Here was one:

Here’s another:

Yet another:

For some reason I got a demerit on that one. So I went full Nazi:

I decided to post an image of the Fuhrer because I was so annoyed with Leftists who claim nothing can be funny. This was just in the last couple of days.

Since I’ll be going to the re-entertainment camps in any event, I may as well confess my evil past. Fifteen or more years ago, I was annoyed at Leftists sporting “Coexist” bumper stickers. I don’t mind coexistence as a general thing, but it was clear at the time that Islamic terrorism, fascism and the general terror which is communism were on the march.

I had the idea for a bumper sticker: replace all those “Coexist” symbols with the proper symbols for what was really going on. Fascism, communism, war and destruction all working in concert. But I didn’t have good symbols for the O and the I. A bomb and a stick of dynamite was one way I tried.

Antifa and BLM provided the symbols I need. Behold:

I have it in much higher resolution.

The funniest thing I saw this week, and contender for the funniest thing seen in any week, is a tweet from State Senator Frank S. Nicely of Tennessee.

Just roll that around on your tongue. Frank Nicely. His parents must have been considerably more intelligent than Charles Dickens.

Frank’s no dope, either. Here’s what he had to say*:

Last time, you jabbernauts said Russia chose. Make up your damned minds.

* Quote from memory. Twitter suppressed it and no search engine can find it, but he really did say “jabbernaut”.

The Michigan Squish is a swinging new dance that’s taking the rage by country!

As everyone knows by now, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer is of an extraterrestrial lizard-tyrant species; you can plainly see her hairline starts behind the mask. She is also a lawbreaker.

So three lawmakers in the Michigan State House introduced Articles of Impeachment.

Then they lit the disco ball
And the dancers one and all
Got swingin’ to the Michigan Squish

The Republican House Speaker is a fellow named Lee Chatfield. “What’s that?” I asked over the phone. “Leech Hatfield?” Anyway this Chatfield guy said,

“[Impeachment is a] distraction from the real things we have to get done in our state.

“We’re not the party that impeaches someone because we’re upset with policies that they’ve enacted…I thought it was shameful what the Democrats did to President Trump last last year, and I would I would assume that any attempt by Republicans right now, with the current set of facts that we have to impeach the governor, would be on the same level.”

Chatfield and Republican Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey said they were frustrated that the governor had ordered the partial shutdown on her own but said they were eager to work in a “bipartisan way.”

The Michigan Squish is kind of like Lambada, but with two men.

I’m going to shout this very slowly: the reason to impeach Whitmer isn’t because you don’t agree with her policies. It’s because she’s violating Michigan law and the Michigan Constitution. That’s what the impeachment remedy is for, you glibbering poltroons.

And if impeachment really is a distraction, wouldn’t a “bipartisan” effort be even more of a distraction?

And what’s this “we are not the party to do something like that” hockey? The other party wins by all means and at all costs, but winning is just not who we are in Michigan, I guess.

Leading to the final insult: comparing Trump’s impeachment, which was a pure political spectacle with zero basis in fact, reason, or law, to a righteous proceeding against a lawless and callous executive.

The people must brace these kitchen-sponge bipeds. They must be made to know, if they don’t win this, their careers are over. Their enemies will not relent, and they will have no friends.

I see where an historic boulder will be removed from the campus at UW Madison, because a 1925 newspaper article had referred to the rock as a “nigger-head”. This caused everyone to fail his exams 95 years later, or something.

The term “nigger-head” also appears in the poetry of Robert W. Service. It was period slang for a dark-coloured boulder sticking up out of melting snow.

My heart sank. If they can cancel a 70-ton rock on this flimsy a basis, there is literally nothing they won’t cancel.

When people think of the word Genocide, they think of systematic industrial extermination of the kind the Nazis practiced. But genocide can happen without literal extermination. One such genocide is famously going on in China right now, the Uighur situation. The Uighurs are being treated with great physical harshness, but outright murder isn’t the main plan. Instead the Uighurs are rigorously denied their religious practices, their cultural traditions, and their community customs. Their women are forcibly impregnated by Chinese men, to dilute their bloodlines. Over time, the Uighurs will not be recognizable as a race, as an ethny, or as a religious or social identity distinct from China.

America is in the process of a similar kind of genocide, a comprehensive assault on our shared culture, on our social contract, on our traditional freedoms. It is being perpetrated by ignorant, humorless terrorists, some of whom call themselves “woke”.

Let’s just consider what “woke” means to “culture” in the narrow sense we generally use that word. It means annihilation; death without rebirth.

Warner can’t publish a complete collection of their historic Looney Tunes; Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs is considered beyond the pale. Warner did republish some of the older cartoons featuring black stereotypes, but every time that DVD loaded you had to listen to Whoopi Goldberg tell you for five minutes what a bad person you are for wanting to watch cartoons featuring black stereotypes.

They did the same thing recently for Blazing Saddles; a solemn content warning for one of the funniest movies of all time. Did you know that movie was actually a parody of racist attitudes? Golly Gee! Wokeness is fundamentally immature and unserious.

It is also incredibly dangerous. What they want is the power to ban. They could get it. Major Media, Silicon Valley and the Democrats want that power too.

The implacable nature of Wokeness is that you can never be Woke enough. Ban the most offensive thing you can find. Now that you can’t find it any more, something else is the most offensive thing you can find, so now ban that. Literally everything is not Woke enough. Literally everything is what they would ban.

They might start with Blazing Saddles, but then the whole Mel Brooks ouvre is tainted, so it’ll have to go too. Mark Twain and Herman Melville are easy targets. Conan the Barbarian had a white hero defeat a black antagonist, so no more Schwarzenegger. Same with Alien, so no Ridley Scott. Some people think Woody Allen is a child molester, so get rid of him too.

And so on. until everything from Betty and Veronica to Chopin is forbidden. At that point, it’s never America again. If we can’t share our cultural legacy, we are no longer identifiable as a people. To the Woke, that’s a feature, not a bug.

Obviously it’s not possible to create a total cultural vacuum. They intend for Woke music, literature and art to replace what is taken away. The ensuing creative wasteland is horrific to contemplate.

It all seems so far-fetched. But academic leftists really talk like this. They really want to throw it all away, all culture, high and low. It seems unfeasible.

And yet, with nothing but a flurry of words, they blew away a 70-ton boulder.

It’s got to the point where Democrats are making no secret about their plans for vengeance in the event they regain power. Make no mistake, they mean retribution.

One part of the plan is the Trump Accountability Project (TAP). It’s basically a list of all the people Trump worked with as candidate or as President. The Project will have ample funding and will work to destroy the people on that list, legally, professionally, and personally.

I’m a data guy, and I just had a really bad idea. Censorship and surveillance are the new technological frontier. Twitter and Facebook are literally panopticons of arbitrary censorship; Google is more subtle, but no less ruthless, in its manipulation of public perception. All of them and more besides are relentless in acquiring and maintaining data about everyone who comes remotely in contact with their networks.

Suppose these geniuses decided to put their tech muscle behind Accountability. It’s pathetically simple; just keep the Accountability List public so anyone can see who’s on it and why, and where they live, work, etc. Leave it to the mob to enforce. Put everyone on notice: if you don’t want to be on the list, don’t say anything we disagree with and don’t have commerce of any kind with anyone on the list. Right down to: don’t host or read their websites.

This scheme will drive Patriots out of the public square, out of the economic sphere, out of the financial and housing markets, and ultimately out of the grocery store.

All this of course is speculative, but it’s easy speculation. China has already shown the way with its “social credit” system. It could happen here, and we should assume it will, promptly, if the Democrats get control of the Federal power.

Mercenary creep Kevin D. Williamson has a new book out, Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid, and High on Rage in the Dank Woolly Wilds of the “Real America.” According to the description at Amazon,

Unsparing yet never unsympathetic, Big White Ghetto provides essential insight into an enormous but forgotten segment of American society.

I’m trying to think of an unsparing but not unsympathetic way to tell someone they are stone-cold stupid and high on rage. In more recent news, Kevin snarked out a column for NRO, “The Dumbest of Coups”, today:

Trump is a conspiracy kook who surrounded himself with other conspiracy kooks and cultivated kooky impulses in his aides, meaning that he is a kook in himself and the cause of kookery in others. The new Dominion-based conspiracy theory is only a variation on a longstanding theme.
…
Rather than ask whether conspiracy kookery is relevant to Republican politics at this moment, it would be better to ask if there is anything else to Republican politics at this moment.
…
Trump didn’t win. He lost to Joe Biden, who hardly even bothered to campaign against him. He may very well end up costing Republicans control of the Senate. He has a better chance of being indicted on criminal charges and/or returning once more to bankruptcy court than he does of serving a second term as president.

Notice in that second snippet he doesn’t say “Trump supporters”, he says “Republican politics”. He really is indicting the whole party and all its factions, and all media to the right of CNN, for being QAnon-addled fantasists. Shit, I can get this kind of thing at Salon.

Everyone knows Kevin D. Williamson is an intermittently-bloated, sweaty-faced glory-hole whore. Not all are aware he is paid handsomely by the enemy to disparage and slander the people who gave NRO its prestige and its moral mission in the first place. Creep.

Both these items were featured on Instapundit today, within a couple hours of each other. Why in God’s green Earth would any Instapundit reader want to hear what Kevin Williamson has to say? Why would we want to be reminded that loathsome troll even exists?