America braces for more peaceful protests

The plywood is going up on storefronts across America, as US media eagerly anticipate, some would say encourage, the inevitable mayhem that will ensue regardless of the verdict rendered in Minnesota. No wonder the price of lumber is at record highs!

Enraged mobs will demonstrate their commitment to social justice by looting and burning down their local shopping districts. LeBron will no doubt issue some distraught tweets in his capacity as public intellectual. The usual social entrepreneurs will use the opportunity to revive their fundraising. Al Sharpton will have so many media appearances he’ll have to clone himself just to keep up.

Octogenarian Maxine Waters has the Dem nomination for ’24 in the bag, if she wants it. The brilliant leadership she displayed at the weekend made Sleepy Joe look, well, kinda sleepy, don’t you think? Waters isn’t just older and wiser than Joe, but clearly there’s still a fire in there somewhere, and the marbles seem to yet roll mostly in the right direction, at least compared to the President.

If there is one thing that we know for sure, it’s that no matter how bad things get in the days ahead, regardless of loss of life or property damage, it will never occur to anyone in DC that the world is watching and wondering why America’s overweening concern for human rights in Venezuela and China never translates into improving the lives of its own citizens.