Remember the George Floyd riots of 2020?

I do. Vast swathes of my city were burned down including a police precinct–a first. The City of Minneapolis actually evacuated and abandoned a police precinct and let rioters burn it down.

It was pretty traumatic for the city. It took days to get the city back under control. The National Guard had to be called out, and even then it took days to retake the city. I lent my neighbor a gun. As a Black man, he was surprised I would and very grateful. We were in it together, protecting each other against a mob. He bought a gun soon after. First time ever for him.

Well my local NBC station has figured out how to describe the destruction during those times. And it isn’t riot.

In fact, nobody did anything at all. What happened was an event that had nothing to do with human agency: it was “the fires.” They just sort of happened.

I thought this was a news organization? 2020 fires? pic.twitter.com/7ULAvn3f3c

— Fignuts (@JDavis763) April 7, 2023

“The 2020 fires.”

I wonder how long it took them to come up with that. After all, describing the multiple-day terrorization of a city by mobs, the burning down, vandalization, and utter destruction of local businesses. The violence and terror.

It’s hard to find a nice way to describe a building being gutted by fire without SOME reference to the events which, literally, sparked it.

But they did. They found a way.

It was “the 2020 fires.” As if Mrs. O’Leary’s cow just happened to bump over a kerosene lamp and “poof,” up went Minneapolis.

Clever.

This is one of the many reasons why, as I discussed in an earlier post, people who trust the media become idiots. They are fed a steady diet of propaganda and, should they actually buy it, they become stupid.

Yes, actual research shows that trust in media directly correlates with not having a damn clue about what the world looks like.

Last night in a VIP piece I made the case for not freaking out about the state of the world. I looked back to the 1970s and 80s and recounted how the 80s corrected the evils of the 60s and 70s.

The case on the other side–that we are doomed–is buttressed by the fact that our entire cultural and political elite has turned against America in a way that was less true then.

Who knows? I don’t. Are we doomed? Or will sanity return?

What I do know is that our MSM and the Left prefer “doomed,” as in replaying 1984.

“The 2020 fires.” If you think that is an apt description of what happened to my city in 2020, you probably think Seattle enjoyed a Summer of Love as well.