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Sunday, April 21, 2024

My Gazette: American Cities

You know that little voice in your head that prevents you from saying the things you shouldn't say.  Yeah, I don't have that!

By Rich Kozlovich 

 

America's major cities are economic disasters and crime ridden sewers, and you can thank leftists Democrats for that, along with their sick allies in the media, and most of the mayors of those cities have black administrations.  In 2021 Daniel Greenfield listed the 14 worst mayors in America, and of those 14, all the white mayors but one were replaced by black mayors.  But each and every one of them then, as well as now, are blatant far left racists and Democrats, and they've turned their cities in to crime ridden sewers.   Oh, and one more thing. The truth isn't racist, it's just the truth.  

Biden's administration has created an immigration nightmare to the point we now have ‘Burglary Tourists who fly in to rob Americans: 

"Democrat-run cities are now magnets for every terrible thing in the world: an invasion of illegal aliens, violent criminals, burglaries, drug abuse, and pervasive homelessness. The moment you tolerate this behavior, you invite more of it............No sympathy. None."

Then we have these famous and/or wealthy people who promote all these leftist narratives, and then find they've created a disaster.  But do they change their minds?  No.  They change their addresses!  Then, unlike the typical citizen of these communities, they can afford to move somewhere else.  Contaminating stable communities, and states with their insane rantings. 

But that's not just in America's major cities.  It's true in small town America as well.  These politicians use public funds as if they were using ATM's, and any condemnation of their blatantly criminal activity is called racist! In the case of these next two nitwits, racism and misogyny.  

See also “The black, female, big-spending Illinois mayor claiming racism and misogyny has a point” by Andrea Widburg, here.     

Henyard And Bowser: Two Racist Mayors Telling Lies And Abusing Constituents -By Milt Harris ——--April 16, 2024 -  Muriel Bowser and Tiffany Henyard are two racist black Democrat mayors who are misusing funds and, by doing so, are abusing their constituents. Over the past weekend, Bowser made plans to attend the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. On Saturday, she updated her public calendar, stating that her visit to Augusta was for sports and economic development purposes.......

Embattled Democrat mayor accused of using police as personal ‘Gestapo’ to target those who didn’t support her campaign - February 22, 2024 By Olivia Murray -  By now, you’ve probably heard of Tiffany Henyard, the embattled Biden-loving Democrat mayor of Dolton, Illinois, who recently came under fire for raking in a “combined salary of nearly $300k” to fund her glamorous first-class lifestyle and high-maintenance beauty routine—for context, the town’s residents have a median income of around $24,000. But Henyard refused to concede that perhaps isn’t the best example of a civil servant and lambasted her dissenters, telling them they should be “ashamed” of themselves for daring to petition for accountability and financial transparency. (Note: all Henyard’s critics were also black.)  Well there’s been a development, and the allegations are simply scandalous. Here’s the story, from Cristina Laila at The Gateway Pundit:

Dolton, Illinois Mayor Tiffany Henyard is now under FBI investigation for abusing her power after she shut down businesses that didn’t donate to her campaign.…One business owner told The New York Post that he made one contribution to Henyard and her minions kept coming after him demanding more money. When he didn’t comply, Henyard shut down his trucking business.…Tiffany Henyard reportedly used the police as her personal Gestapo to shut down more than a dozen businesses after they refused to give her money. Lawrence Gardner owns a U-Haul rental and trucking business in south suburban Dolton and says he went to the FBI several months ago, frustrated that the Village of Dolton would not renew his business license.…Gardner said he's been harassed and his business raided and shut down by Dolton Police. Gardner believes it’s retaliation after he refused to make a donation to a civic event sponsored by Dolton Mayor Tiffany Henyard.…Dewayne Wood has been trying to renew the business license for his restaurant for nearly a year.…Wood has not talked to the FBI, but he believes he can’t get ‘Wood’s Kitchen’ approved because he has provided catering to several Dolton trustees who are engaged in a political fight with Henyard. ‘I think I've been targeted because of my association, affiliation with a certain group of people,’ Wood said. ‘The trustees. I’ve cooked for the trustees.’..............
 
Sanctuary Cities Helped Keep 3x-Deported MS-13 Gang Member in U.S. - John Binder An MS-13 Gang member, previously deported three times, with a long criminal record was repeatedly shielded from federal immigration enforcement thanks to the sanctuary jurisdictions of Prince George’s County, Maryland and Washington, DC. The 36-year-old Salvadoran national has a documented record with the violent MS-13 Gang, had been arrested in the United States on 17 separate occasions dating back to December 2005, and was deported three times by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents before returning to the U.S. again, likely after illegally crossing the southern border for a fourth time......
 
 The Anti-Cultural Nihilism of the Left - By Paul Krause July 25, 2010 - The final battle lines for America are the history wars.  Conservatives are losing.  There have already been two fundamental revolutions that have reshaped, reconstituted, restructured American society.  The first was Abraham Lincoln and the subjugation of the primacy of the states, Northern and Southern alike, to the dictates of executive fiat and the federal government.  The second was Franklin Roosevelt and the subjugation of civil society to federal bureaucracy.  The first was a political revolution, the second a social revolution.  The third revolution is the ongoing cultural revolution, a revolution that includes factors such as immigration, the teaching and reception of European and North American history, and our own self-understanding as a people with an inheritance and a future......
 
 The Biden administration is destroying our national security infrastructure - March 5, 2024 By Andrea Widburg -  America has been facing a helium crisis that goes far beyond balloons and threatens our medical care and military readiness. Thankfully, a new helium reservoir has just been discovered, but the ongoing helium shortage won’t instantly go away and, combined with the Biden administration’s many anti-military policies, still leaves us vulnerable to a military strike by a foreign actor.  On Friday, news broke about the helium reservoir, along with the fact that (a) our national security depends on helium, (b) we’re dangerously low on that essential......

American Marxism and Unalienable Rights -By Steve McCann American Marxists have recently launched a new campaign in their ongoing war on America and its founding. Their latest salvo is the proposition that so-called “Christian Nationalism” is an existential threat to the nation. They define Christian Nationalism as: “an ideology that asserts all civic life in the U.S. should be organized according to a particularly conservative and ethnocentric expression of Christianity.”  The American Marxists absurdly claim that those who supposedly adhere to this ideology believe in: strict moral traditionalism, the retention of social hierarchies, authoritarian control exercised by the “right” people; and, White supremacy and strict ethno-racial boundaries. In reality, this drumbeat of Christian Nationalism is yet another means of accusing 45% of Americans who identify as evangelicals and Catholics and may vote for Donald Trump as being “racists and deplorables.” A deliberate tactic intended to further incite racial and tribal animosity among the electorate in a crucially important election year........

America’s Destruction and the Ghosts of Revolutions Past - March 6, 2024 By Vince Coyner  -Have you ever been listening to someone talk and have déjà vu even though you’ve never seen or heard of the person speaking, and the interview you’re watching happened just a few hours before? I have. Once. Last week. Hint: It has to do with America’s destruction. I was listening to Tucker interview Xi Van Fleet, a Chinese native who lived through the Cultural Revolution in China. She eventually immigrated to the United States, where she’s now lived for 40 years. Listening to her describe the beginnings of the Cultural Revolution and its eerie echoes here, I knew I’d heard something similar before. And then it hit me: I had. Exactly 40 years ago, a defector from the Soviet Union, Yuri Bezmenov, gave an interview explaining how the KGB was using what it called Ideological Subversion to collapse the United States......

The failures and pathology of leftism are on display across America - September 24, 2023 By Andrea Widburg -  Midwestern cities. They’re in the heart of the region that leftists now speak of derogatorily as “the flyover states.” But once, they were called the “heartland” because they embodied true American qualities.  And once upon a time, they did embody true American qualities. Back in the day, the government promised people that, if they could clear the land and make it usable, they could have the land. On the one hand, it was a giveaway but, on the other hand, there was nothing “free” about it. Instead, it was payment for painful, backbreaking, heartbreaking services rendered.

You see the products of these labors all over the Midwest. Beautiful, thoughtfully laid-out cities, charming small towns, endless green fields. Just a few years ago, even the Democrat-run cities, while they had their bad sides and poverty, were mostly nice places—really nice places—to live................ the Midwest’s decline is the BLM/Antifa riots that tore apart America—and that started in Minneapolis itself with George Floyd’s drug-related death while in police custody. I used to visit Minneapolis/St. Paul frequently before the riots and was invariably impressed by what a lovely duo of cities it was—well-ordered, beautiful, and safe. Now, though, the young people I knew who lived there are leaving because it’s too dangerous.......

Massachusetts Spending $64 a Day to Feed Each Migrant… On Track to Spend $1 Billion By 2025 - State records show that Massachusetts is spending about $64 per migrant per day to feed those in state care, a cost that is contributing to the expected one billion dollars in expenses to be spent by the Bay State by 2025. The latest numbers show that the state is paying out $16 for breakfast, $17 for lunch, and a whopping $31 for every dinner every day, according to WBZ-TV..............

Democrat-Run Austin at ‘Brink’ Due to Police ‘Staffing Collapse’ - John Nolte Today’s heartwarming story of Democrats getting what they voted for takes us to Austin, Texas, where a police staffing crisis exploded the murder rate, and according to a report there were no cops at all in a section of the city on one Saturday in February. “Austin, Texas residents are expressing outrage over police staffing shortages and longer 911-call response times in the aftermath of the city council’s vote to defund the department in 2020,” the New York Post reported. It gets better….....
Bail Set at $1 - Man Accused of Raping, Impregnating Teen Enjoys Charitable Release Due to Prosecution Flub - Bail Set at $1 - Man Accused of Raping, Impregnating Teen Enjoys Charitable Release Due to Prosecution Flub. 25-year-old Texas man facing accusations of raping a 16-year-old is no longer in jail due to a delay by prosecutors in obtaining an indictment against him. According to KTRK-TV, Luis Sanchez posted the $1 bail set by a judge last week and no longer is on the roster of Harris County Jail inmates. Sanchez was arrested in May on a charge of sexual assault of a child under the age of 17, related to an April 2022 incident.........
Dallas attacks lawful businesses on behalf of animal-rights groups - The Dallas City Council is about to introduce an ordinance to ban horse-drawn carriages in the City of Dallas, attempting to appease the animal rights agenda. The proposed ordinance is part of an ongoing national campaign spearheaded by well-funded radical animal rights organizations. But that’s only part of the story.  Last year, in 2023, the Texas State Legislature passed a bill called the Regulatory Consistency Act (HB2127) which prohibits local cities, counties, and local municipalities from adopting or enforcing an ordinance, order, rule, or policy that bans an existing law-abiding business.  According to this new law, Dallas City Council is acting unlawfully by introducing this ordinance to ban horse-drawn carriage businesses in the city of Dallas.

Antifa's Violent Attack on the Portland 'Peoples Truck Convoy' Was Openly Plotted on Twitter - By Victoria Taft Apr 30, 2022 - The “People’s Convoy” of truckers was attacked by known Antifa members who dropped projectiles, paintballs, eggs, and other objects at passing motorists in hopes of injuring drivers and stopping the convoy.  The attack could have been deadly. And it was openly organized on Twitter. But sure, let’s censor conservative speech, Silicon Valley and Alejandro Mayorkas.   Five people wearing masks stationed themselves on an I-205 overpass, which ribbons through Portland’s east side, and recklessly and wantonly threw objects at passing motorists and the convoy. They displayed a sign reading, “Trump Lost.” Apparently, the Jacobins assumed that everyone is as weak-minded as they were and that their words would trigger … something. The assault on the vehicles forced motorists to stop, causing a backup on a busy Friday afternoon on the interstate freeway that creates a beltway around parts of Southwest Washington and Portland.........

Zero Students Proficient in Math at 40 Percent of Baltimore High Schools  - Not a single student is proficient in math at 40% of Baltimore public high schools in the spring of 2023, according to state exam results obtained by Fox45. Nearly 2,000 students took the state math exam across the 13 schools with no proficient students. Of the students who took the exam at...

How Democrats went 'Evita' on the spending in their solid blue cities and states By Monica Showalter  February 27, 2024 Democrats have no ideas of value to sell to voters, so they spend money to buy votes. In blue cities and states, they spend big, bringing states and cities gargantuan debts and deficits, and never concern themselves for a minute about where the money to pay it back is going to come from.  Whether it's green schemes with its cash-to-cronies, bloated union pensions for do-nothing government workers, free five-star hotels, or health care for illegal aliens, or other boondoggles, it's spend, and spend again. And why not? Someone else will always bail them out..........

Johnson’s Chicago: 13 Armed Robberies in 8 Hours - AWR Hawkins Police are trying to identify suspects after 13 armed robberies occurred in Chicago during an 8-hour time frame on Saturday.  NBC 5 reported the robberies were all conducted by a group of men who jumped out of a vehicle, pulled handguns on their victims, and demanded that they hand over cash and property......

 

Americans Leaving Cities Destroyed by Democrats - Jeff Crouere  |  Mar 18, 2024- For decades, Democrats have controlled the nation’s largest cities. The results have been catastrophic, including high crime rates, blight, failing public educational systems, rampant poverty, and an expanding homeless population.   These horrific outcomes are due to Democrats supporting failed policies, such as raising taxes, increasing regulations, growing the government, and refusing to prosecute violent criminals. Consequently, citizens voted with their feet and left in droves, a trend which has started to accelerate.  For example, while the country’s population soared sixty million to 341 million since 2000, it was a much different situation in the progressive hellhole of Chicago. The “Windy City” lost 231,000 people in 24 years, the most out migration of any city in the nation. 
 
Chicago Teachers Union president with $50B in new demands tells Chicagoans to stop asking about the ‘cost’ -   March 8, 2024 By Olivia Murray -   In June, the contract between the Chicago Teachers Union and the city’s public school system is set to expire, at which point, the two parties will enter into negotiations, and union president Stacy Davis Gates already has a list of proposed increases she expects to range in the tens of billions. According to reporter Mark Glennon and Wirepoints, Davis Gates spoke before a crowd at the City Club of Chicago on Tuesday to address the upcoming negotiations, saying “it’s gonna get a little hot in this city” because as reported by the Chicago Sun Times, the list of demands she was coming to the table with are “defiant” contract stipulations. Elsewhere, other Wirepoints journalists reported that Davis Gates has publicly vocalized that under her leadership, the union is on a mission to achieve “cultural transformation” within the city’s school system as well as the city itself—the police presence in schools has already been eliminated—and some of the “defiant” new proposals she’ll be bringing to the negotiating table in June include:........
 
My Take - When you dance with the Devil you don't choose the dance, you don't call the tune, and you can't leave the dance floor. Schadenfreude Chicago, you're getting exactly what you deserve.  I think the author's South Africa analogy is a good one, and it's playing out in all of America's major cities. Most if not all of them run by Democrats and most of them run by black administrations.  RK

Desperate for money, Chicago sues ‘Big Oil’ - February 22, 2024 by Chris Talgo - February 22, 2024 Desperate for money, Chicago sues ‘Big Oil’ By Chris Talgo Last year, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson sued Hyundai and Kia based on the absurd allegation that the vehicles they make are too easy to steal. Now, Johnson has set his sights on “Big Oil,” claiming that British Petroleum, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Exxon Mobil, Phillips 66, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute deceived “Chicago consumers about the climate dangers associated with their products.” “There is no justice without accountability,” said Johnson. “From the unprecedented poor air quality that we experienced last summer to the basement floodings that our residents on the West Side experienced, the consequences of this crisis are severe, as are the costs of surviving them. That is why we are seeking to hold these Defendants accountable.”......

'Traumatized' residents of wealthy San Francisco neighborhood resort to using CHICKEN WIRE to protect their homes against intruders as crime spirals - with even 'hard-core natives' feeling so unsafe they want to move - By Alex Hammer For Dailymail.ComCitizens in a residential area of San Francisco are bolstering their homes with chicken wire in a bid to keep out intruders. Happening in the city's Richmond District, the safety measures come amid a recent jump in burglaries, robberies, and homicides in the affluent neighborhood. Headline-grabbing incidents like thieves making off with a Bank of America ATM earlier this year have even longtime residents on edge - with some installing cameras and safety locks along with the unconventional farm equipment......

Ryan Gosling, Eva Mendes Latest Celebrities to Leave Los Angeles - David Ng No more La La Land for Ryan Gosling. You can add Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes to the list of Hollywood celebrities who have bid farewell to Los Angeles. The celebrity couple moved out of L.A. with their two daughters to give their kids a quieter childhood, a source told People magazine. “For them, the most important job is their girls. Everything else comes second,” the unnamed source told People. “And their girls are thriving. They left L.A. to live a bit further north, away from Hollywood. They didn’t want the girls to grow up around other celebrity kids.”...........

Nolte: ‘Burglary Tourists’ Fly in from South America to Rob Dem-Run Los Angeles - John Nolte Tourism is up in Democrat-run Los Angeles — “burglary tourism”: from South America. Well, at least someone wants to visit that shithole. LAPD Deputy Chief Alan Hamilton told the far-left and slowly dying Los Angeles Times that “South American theft groups are not new in L.A., but they have become more active in recent months.” The Times adds: “He cautioned that it’s difficult to know for certain how many robberies can be attributed to foreign burglars, but said evidence indicates they are behind scores of break-ins.” In one area, north of the 118 freeway, he estimates there “were 94 burglaries, many probably committed by these crews.”.......
 
San Francisco provides an insight into the economic collapse of leftist polities By Andrea Widburg February 22, 2024 - Judge Erdogon - (and I always want to call him Erdogan, which I’m sure is Freudian) may have dealt an economic death blow to New York when he ruled against Donald Trump to the tune of almost half a billion dollars. Businesses and ordinary people have announced they intend to boycott New York, whether for self-protection or principle. But what happens when it’s the governing body that engages in boycotts? That turns out to be just as much of a death blow. The tale of San Francisco’s decision to boycott 30 states because the city disagreed with their politics is a wonderful example of leftist hubris and the economic havoc it wreaks......
 
Commiefornia Democrats ramp up assaults against property owners and push bill to force landlords to accept pets - February 26, 2024  By Olivia Murray -  California landlords, get out while you can. Yesterday, Jeff Charles at RedState reported that Democrat lawmaker from San Francisco, Matt Haney, had recently introduced a bill that would prohibit landlords from enacting “blanket pet bans” in regards to their properties. Here are the details, according to a press release from Haney’s office:.......
 
Nightmare: Squatters take over home, and OWNER gets arrested! Changed locks while 'tenant' was away from residence -By Bob Unruh March 19, 2024 -In the topsy-turvy America today, where conservatives are jailed and liberals let off, where judges turn violent criminals loose and the Deep State's political enemies are behind bars, where illegal aliens have rights and property owners don't, this scenario probably shouldn't surprise: It is a case of squatters taking over a privately owned home and the owner getting arrested......
 
When Illegal Aliens Catch Wind of the Squatting Laws in Blue Cities, It’s Going to Get Ugly - Every now and then, I hear ideas or come across stories that I don’t want to put in writing. These usually surround information that I do not want out there because I don’t want to give anybody ideas. The article below is one of those cases; I didn’t want illegal aliens to figure out how they can further exploit one of the most ludicrous types of laws on the books in many major cities and leftist states. With Fox News covering it and other outlets picking it up, it’s time to warn Americans about a huge potential problem: Illegal aliens hopping on the squatter bandwagon. Squatting has become such a problem in many Democrat-run (and some RINO-run) cities and states that homeowners are rushing to sell any rental properties that sit vacant. In areas with loose squatter laws, the asset of owning rental homes has become a major liability when squatters take “ownership” and live in these homes rent-free for weeks or even months. Sometimes, it can extend for years and cost the actual homeowner tens of thousands of dollars just to get their property back.............
 
The New York Fire Department goes full North Korean on dissidents -  March 10, 2024 By Andrea Widburg - A state Attorney General is supposed to enforce the law impartially for the benefit of all citizens. However, New York’s AG, Letitia James, ran on an inherently political platform, vowing that she would destroy President Trump—and she’s tried to keep that promise. No wonder, then, that when she spoke at a Fire Department of New York (“FDNY”) promotion ceremony on Thursday, she got a political response from the assembled crowd: Boos. Now, the FDNY has gone full North Korean: Those who booed must turn themselves in for punishment and reeducation or be “hunted down.”  Part One of this saga is Letitia James’s 2018 campaign promise to destroy Donald Trump:......
 
My Take - You would assume the union would have something to say about this, along with  a lawsuit.....or maybe a strike, and get the police to join them. Now, that's protesting!  Well, it didn't happen, and it's clear they need new union leadership, and until then, get the members to join together and sue both the union and the city.  But due to the backlash the Department heads decided to leave it alone.   So....who are the fascists here?  RK

Thousands of police and TROOPS descend on N.Y. subway system - 'These brazen, heinous attacks will not be tolerated' By WND Staff March 6, 2024 - The violence, the attacks, the threats to life and limb in New York City's subway system have gotten so bad the governor is insisting that National Guard troops be deployed to protect the innocent civilians trying to commute to work. Just the News is reporting that Gov. Kathy Hochul has ordered deployed 1,000 soldiers and state police officers.  They are to patrol the subway system and check the contents of bags – all because of major crime spiking in the system. "These brazen, heinous attacks on our subway system will not be tolerated," she charged, citing a number of high-profile assaults. She said the goals will be to deter crime and protect people.The bag searches are intended to make sure weapons are not brought into the system............

Brilliant: Let’s haul the National Guard into the New York subway -  March 7, 2024 by Pamela Garber - “Now, finally, something is being done” is the reiterated reaction from the thinkers on the left and, disappointingly, the thinkers on the right. Both sides have shouted about government overreach, and now everyone is nodding for the National Guard to police the New York City subways. But why not resume allowing the local police to do their job? Why not let judges do their jobs by ending bail reform? Why does local crime need to be outsourced to the National Guard when it had been handled effectively at the local level in years past? Would there not be enough officers available now? Sometimes, seeing things framed within an analogy clarifies the true essence of what is taking place. In this case, we need a three-pronged analogy — the National Guard, the local police, and the local government. The National Guard is like Amazon, the big savior who surpasses all competition. The local police are like small businesses, left out in the cold and replaced by Amazon. And the local government is like a parent with Munchausen syndrome by proxy. The Munchausen parent creates his child’s illness; fosters it; and, instead of plain parenting, gets the Amazonesque government to take control.......

Illegal Alien Repeat Offender Accused of Attacking Multiple Women Is Back on Streets of Dysfunctional NYC - I won't go into the "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" thing, but I will report that an illegal alien repeat offender is back on New York City streets after spending less than a year in jail for the latest in a series of arrests where he was accused of attacking female hospital workers dating back to 2019.  Simple solution: The guy should not only have been deported after he committed his first crime, but he also shouldn't have been allowed into the country in the first place. Neither one of those preemptive actions occurred, so let's continue.  On a recent episode of Fox & Friends First, co-host Todd Piro highlighted an example of how far NYC has fallen in taking violent crime seriously. Piro recalled the case of Edward Johnson, who has a history of assaulting women who work in hospitals: ......

NYC mayor deploys a ‘trash can on wheels’ robot to deter out-of-control crime in the subway September 24, 2023 When even AOC thinks it’s an asinine idea, you know it’s a political abomination. ...............

Prominent Investor Cancels New York Plans 40 Years in the Making After Trump Ruling  -By Allison Anton February 22, 2024- New York might soon have more reasons than the potential trucker boycott to regret the recent multimillion-dollar fraud ruling against former President Donald Trump. Last week, Judge Arthur Engoron ordered the leading GOP presidential candidate to pay $355 million in damages for supposedly using false and inflated values for his properties on financial statements. Fox Business reported Wednesday that the massive judgment against Trump is having serious consequences that the Empire State seemingly never foresaw............

Hochul Says New Yorkers ‘Need a Break’ While Giving Welfare to Illegals - John Binder New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) says New Yorkers “need a break” from illegal immigration as her administration opens welfare to border crossers and illegal aliens arriving in the sanctuary state.During an interview on MSNBC this week, Hochul said the arrival of nearly 200,000 border crossers and illegal aliens to New York since the spring of 2022 has “overwhelmed” and strained public resources, suggesting more arrivals ought to be shut out to give New Yorkers “a break.”..........

NY City Council Calls for Investigation into Mayor Adams’ $10K Debit Cards for Illegals - Warner Todd Huston - As the blowback continues over Democrat Mayor Eric Adams’ plan to give illegal border crossers in city shelters pre-paid debit cards, ostensibly to use to buy food, members of the city council have asked for an investigation into the scheme. Adams proposed his new policy early in February, and insisted the program that would allow illegals to feed themselves would save the city millions of dollars in often wasted food-service costs................

New York State Sending National Guard to NYC so Commuters ‘Feel Safe’ - The state of New York is sending the National Guard, State Police, and MTA cops into New York City subways, so commuters “feel safe” amid a leadership failure by the mayor that has devastated the city. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced Wednesday that she would deploy state law enforcement to the Big Apple subway network, as well as “teams of mental health workers,” to “help commuters and visitors to the city feel safe,” according to the New York Times. The Times reports:..................

New York Doomed to Be Migrant Central -- Other Cities Take Note - Betsy McCaughey - Mayor Eric Adams' agreement, announced Friday, to limit the time migrants can stay in shelters at taxpayers' expense, is smoke and mirrors. It's designed to fool you into thinking he's solving a problem when he's actually caving to the migrant industrial complex.  Adams claims the agreement, with the Legal Aid Society and the Coalition for the Homeless, will allow the city to evict adult migrants from city-run shelters after 30 days, saving taxpayers money and limiting the need for more shelters. Not true.  The fine print says migrants have a shot at staying longer if they obtain a driver's license, follow shelter rules and show good behavior, or -- get this one -- apply for public benefits. And this is a "non-exhaustive" list of reasons making migrants eligible to stay longer........

Americans Are Leaving Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Chicago and Philadelphia - The Census Bureau this month released its estimates on the populations that each American county had as of July 1, 2023. In a release about this data, it included a table listing the 10 counties that had the largest one-year decline in population as of that date.Los Angeles County ranked first, as this writer reported for the Daily Caller News Foundation.  As of July 1, 2022, it had a population of 9,719,765 people. By July 1, 2023, that had dropped to 9,663,345. This one-year decline of 56,420 was approximately twice the decline that occurred in Kings County, New York, which ranked second. Kings County, which is the borough of Brooklyn, saw its population drop from 2,589,531 to 2,561,225 -- a decline of 28,306.......

Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Minneapolis: When radical socialist Dems are in charge

By Robin Itzler, From Her Patriot Neighbors Newsletter. 

Editor's Note:  This is a selected commentary from Robin's weekly newsletter Patriot Neighbors. Cartoons may  be added by me, if you wish to get the full edition,  E-mail her at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com to get on her list, it's free.  RK

The Minneapolis City Council has 13 members representing the city’s wards. Twelve are members of Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), and one is an independent democratic socialist with Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Three of the 13 members identify with both parties.

In March, the Minneapolis City Council passed new labor regulations that now requires ride-sharing companies to greatly increase the amount they pay drivers using their apps. The council’s goal was for the employees to earn a living minimum wage; however, Uber and Lyft drivers are NOT employees.

Besides, as has been debated in California and elsewhere, shouldn’t the marketplace determine wages?

Both Uber and Lyft warned the Minneapolis city council that they would leave if this measure was passed. Of course, radical socialist Democrats never see beyond their radical socialist agenda and the measure passed. Almost immediately, Uber and Lyft gave notice that they would be terminating their services in Minneapolis effective in May.

As radical socialist Democrats do, the city council then proposed spending $150,000 of taxpayer money to help finance smaller ride-share companies to replace Uber and Lyft. Due to the backlash, the far-left (as in they will fall over if they lean anymore to the left) changed the start date to July 1 in the whimsical hope there will be alternatives in place when Uber and Lyft leave.

Do you think these small ride-share companies will be able to do the job that Uber and Lyft had been doing?
Do you think all the unemployed Uber and Lyft drivers will be happy?
Do you think all the citizens who relied on Uber and Lyft to get around will be happy? 

Can you name one major city in America they're not turned into economic disasters and crime ridden sewers? 

Friday, April 5, 2024

America's Cities are a Disaster, and Democrats Own it All

By Rich Kozlovich 

Theodore Dalrymple once said of egalitarian propaganda:

 “When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”


For my regular readers it's known I have a massive "draft" file where I've saved articles on every issue that impacts humanity, and while some articles I'm linking are dated, the thought content remains valid. 

The words Democrat and leadership should never appear in the same sentence unless it's to decry the lack thereof, since it's abundantly clear, 'Democrat Leadership' is an Oxymoron.  Let's start with this unimpeachable fact:  

1% of Democrat Counties Make Up 42% of America’s Murders Democrats desperately trying to spin high crime rates caused by their pro-crime policies began falsely claiming that crime was a Republican problem. The media began running articles with headlines like, “Red States Have Higher Murder Rates” and “Republicans Like to Talk Tough on Crime — But They’re the Ones with a Real Crime Problem”......There isn’t a red state murder problem, red states have a Democrat crime problem......

America is not a dangerous or crime-ridden country. Unfortunately Democrat cities are overrun with criminals and the politicians who cater to them. The Democrats became an urban party and, after jettisoning the white working class and the small business middle class became the party of criminals. From police defunding to the Black Lives Matter riots to mass jailbreaks and the legalization of drugs and shoplifting in major cities, they embraced pro-crime policies that unleashed a massive crime wave. And now they pretend not to know what’s causing the crime.

Daniel Greenfield also posted this article dealing with illegal immigration entitled, LA Mayor: Our Cities are a Mess Because of a Republican Conspiracy, quoting that intellectual giant, Mayor Karen Bass, accusing the Republicans for L.A's disaster saying:

 “What they’re trying to do is destabilize cities … it’s the narrative that these are Democratic-run cities and that we don’t know how to govern and that everything is chaotic here,”.......... “We live in a city that welcomes immigrants, and so I think we have been able to handle it, but I am fearful that any day planes could start coming.”

So, it's the Republicans who are destabilizing these Democrat controlled cities, and in spite of that, they're handling it?  Really?  Well, I have a question.  Why is it reality and Democrat rhetoric are always so out of harmony?  Because they're stupid, incompetent, lying, and nothing's their fault.  So, let's take a look at their rhetoric versus their reality, the reality they refuse to acknowledge.  And since they're incapable or unwilling to recognize that reality, they will not fix it.  Let's start with California.  

Andrea Widburg who lived in California published this piece, This story of San Francisco’s continuing degradation hits close to home saying: 

I grew up in San Francisco’s Sunset District, a once thriving working- and lower-middle-class neighborhood. An important place in that neighborhood was Stonestown, one of America’s first shopping malls, where generations of children shopped with their mothers and, when older, hung out on their own. It was safe, and there was food. Today, as San Francisco’s government continues its commitment to social Marxism, Stonestown is turning into a violent gang hangout, making it a microcosm of what’s happening to leftist cities across America.........

How things have changed. Thanks to San Francisco’s radical left turn, a once-safe community hub has become dangerous.........San Francisco Police Department has been battered by staffing shortages in recent years,........“San Francisco is on the precipice of a potentially catastrophic police staffing shortage, and there are too many public safety problems we’ll be helpless to solve if we don’t start solving SFPD’s understaffing crisis first,” Dorsey said in a statement earlier this year.  Mayor London Breed redirected $120 million from law enforcement to fund other city initiatives in 2020 as crime continued to surge in the city – with homicides increasing by 20% in 2020 compared to 2019. Homicides also increased 17% in 2021 compared to the previous year, according to city data.

So, that's how that Democrat administration considers handling that?  Remarkable!

On September 19th this article appeared, DA Sues Sacramento Over 'Collapse Into Chaos' saying:

He says city has failed to take action to get homeless people off the streets. A Sacramento prosecutor is suing California's capital city over its failure to clean up homeless encampments. Sacramento District Attorney Thien Ho says his office asked the city to enforce laws around sidewalk obstruction and to create additional professionally operated camping sites. He announced the suit Tuesday during a news conference in Sacramento. Ho said the city is seeing a "collapse into chaos" and an "erosion of every day life," the AP reports. Sacramento County had nearly 9,300 homeless people in 2022, based on data from the annual Point in Time count. That was up 67% from 2019. Roughly three-quarters of the county's homeless population is unsheltered.

So, that's how Democrat administrations "handle" it?   Well, here's the reality of California, and  how Democrats are "handling" it.  Will the last one to leave please turn out the lights:

Living in the land of denial doesn’t automatically come with a passport. It does, however, require a commitment to suspend reality. Take California… please..........it has managed to create its own mythology and then live according to its own set of fantasy-based rules......Californians were like the proverbial frog that's being slowly boiled to death one degree at a time. A few more taxes here and few more regulations there became a lot more taxes here and a lot more regulations there. Many California homeowners found themselves being squeezed by rapidly-increasing property tax rates and onerous and costly environmental regulations while their communities were frantically trying to fund enormous unfunded liabilities like sky-high pensions guaranteed to municipal workers. No one wanted their ox gored. So, when it became clear that no economic or ideological turnaround was in the cards, the 'great Californian exodus' began.

So, their solution is to "handling it" is to make taxpayers who are sick of the insanity, including "extended school closures, suffocating business closures and rigid vaccine mandates served to drive families and business owners out of the state in droves in search of schooling and a better business environment."  So, once everyone leaves California except those who are government employees, those on government dole, leftist radicals, rioters, criminals and illegal aliens, California will be utopian.  

 

Oakland is reaching ‘state of emergency’.  All due to the weak response to criminal activity, the situation is deteriorating beyond repair.  You can't eliminate the police forces in America's cities and expect crime to diminish.  That's foundational.  How stupid can these political hacks possibly be?  How fundamentally stupid can voters in these cities be?  Apparently, there's no boundaries for stupid, and now, "it has gotten so bad that there is a call in Oakland, CA, to declare a “state of emergency.”

Imagine that.  Well guess what, ten years ago the consequences were obvious to the most causal observers:

In 2013, The The state of California, which was once a symbol a middle-class paradise, is now all but insolvent. The city of Stockton has declared bankruptcy and Hispanics are now a plurality in the “All America City.” That city’s situation might be preferable to that of Bell, where the almost entirely Hispanic city has seen practically its entire government arrested for corruption. The mayor’s defense is that he did not know what he was doing, because he is illiterate. Hundreds of thousands of Californians are fleeing the state, the first time there has been “white flight” from an entire state. The left-libertarian magazine Reason, an enthusiastic cheerleader for illegal immigration, blames it all on “big government.”

In Democrat controlled St. Louis it's no better.  As a result of a leftist, racist, radical, who was a notorious Soros backed pro-criminal Circuit Attorney, representing the people of the State of Missouri as their chief prosecutor for state-level crimes in the City of St. Louis, she was notorious for misusing her office to go after political opponents, but utterly failed to do what was necessary to defend the people of St. Louis, and the state of Missouri, against criminals of every ilk, and this car accident is just one example of the vileness of leftist criminal justice policies.  Eventually she was forced to resign on June 1, 2023.  

In 2020 the violent and corrupt Black Live Matter rioted in Philadelphia, and what is race pandering Mayor Jim Kenny's administration's solution for "handling" this?  Philadelphia agreed to pay $9.25 million to over 200 rioters who claimed to have been injured by police during the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020, because "of the pain and trauma ..... the rioters experienced, and claiming that the racism allegedly caused by the police is “immeasurable.”   

Hello people, are you stupid?  They were rioting!!! Rioting is a violent activity!!!  They should have pain and trauma, that meant the police were doing their jobs, and I could care less how "immeasurable" all that might be for them, it was their choice!  And why were the police racists?  Because most of the rioters were black, so doing their jobs to prevent the mayhem these black rioters were perpetrating was racist?  Get real, that's so stupid it borders on insanity!  What's worse, those riots had nothing to do with anything going on in Philadelphia.  It was "following the fentanyl overdose death of George Floyd", a thug and a criminal in  Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

The article went on to say:

In addition to the financial compensation, the city has also agreed to stop participating in a federal program that provides the police department with extra military equipment. The city will also pay about $500,000 for counseling services for residents of the 52nd Street corridor, located in West Philadelphia, where most of the violence occurred..............Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw also issued a statement declaring that the department would change its approach to rioters in the future."

I think it worthwhile to point out at this time:

Both George Floyd and Tyre Nichols both died in Democrat cities with Democrat Police Chiefs, Democrat Mayors, Democrat City Councils, and Democrat Congressmen. Yet Dems are saying this is white supremacy?! No, this is another tragic example of *Democrats* destroying black communities. ........When the writing on the wall is this clear, the only recourse for people desperate to cover up their sins is to blame something or someone other than themselves. The radical left in general is forced to play dumb on a daily basis as news incessantly erupts from Democrat-controlled cities that clearly demonstrates their leftist policies are failing the people miserably. They also know that the victims of their failed policies are their biggest voting block.

Well, since that's how they "handle" things, I think they can be assured there will be "rioters in the future". 

In March a riot broke out in Atlanta's over their plan to build a new police training facility with bricks and Molotov cocktails being thrown at police, even burning in patrol cars, all done by "far-left organizations, including Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and multiple environmental groups."  The article goes on to say:

 A prior riot broke out at the construction site in January when a 26-year-old terrorist shot and injured an Atlanta police officer, and was subsequently killed by return fire. The crowd turned to violence following his death, including attacks against police and the site itself.

Atlanta resides in Fulton County Georgia.  Okay, so, in order to get an insight over the mentality of those responsible for dealing with criminals in Atlanta, I ask:  Who's the prosecutor for Fulton County? Fani Willis, the same Fani Willis who wants to charge Jim Jordan with obstructing her prosecution  because he's had the nerve to question her motives and ethics by demanding "she turn over all documents related to the prosecution of the former president and 18 of his allies."

This pandering to criminals isn't new, in this piece, Murderers Walk Among Us, Coddled by the Left the author describes a murder that took place 30 years ago, where a "jury of 12 men and women decided even though this 18 year old monster "had loaded his gun and departed with it from his house"...he murdered a 26 year old newly married woman by shooting four times a close range, and then, "as she lay quivering, Simpson hovered over, and at close range, fired a fifth bullet that literally blew off her head", but it wasn't premeditated murder.  

In their disgraceful judgement, he only deserved a "second degree" murder conviction, which made him eligible for parole after ten years.  After all, he wasn't all that bad!  He "only had several infractions while incarcerated including violent and sexual transgressions".  He's been out for many years since then, and I wonder what damage he's done.

The author goes on to note:  

In 30 years, has anything in this realm improved? Actually, the situation has gotten worse. Along with woke juries, every day George Soros-funded district attorneys in 20% of the major cities across America allow bona fide murderers to walk around freely.

Can any civilized society tolerate such insanity and survive?  No! 

Overall, Texas is considered a bastion of conservative values.  With all this illegal immigration and migration from leftist sewers, how much longer that will go on is debatable.   However, Texas, you have a problem.   Austin has already fashioned itself, on the order of "San Francisco and Los Angeles. The city was among those leading the charge during 2020’s big #DefundPolice movement and the results have been bad. They’re about to get worse".

An Austin Police Department source told Fox News Digital this week that 40 officers have filed their retirement papers following a 9-2 city council vote a few weeks ago to scrap a four-year contract that the city had previously agreed to in principle and instead pursue a 1-year contract that the police union’s board has rejected. That move is believed by many to be due to intense pressure from anti-police activists in the city who look to hold off a long term deal until after voters decide on competing ballot initiatives dealing with “police oversight” that go before voters in May “It’s my opinion that the radicals and activists in the city have such a grip on our elected officials that at some point in time over the last year or so their plans changed,” the source, who is an Austin Police Department officer, said.  “They said O.K. now we’re going to get signatures for this ballot initiative in May and switch gears and put pressure on city leadership to move away from a four-year deal to a one-year deal because the four-year is detrimental to what we are trying to accomplish.”

Let's not delude ourselves.  Any "police oversight" group will not be a law and order group.  They're political hacks with no experience in law enforcement, nor do they care about anything except to pander to the worst elements of society in finding the police are all racists and need to be controlled by leftist rhetoric.  What happens then?

The police tell them to shove it by either leaving, of simply refuse to the job they're supposed to do, and guess what happens then?  Thugs, murderers, thieves, rapist, and all the dregs of society move in and take over. That destroys everything of value in a community, and they keep voting those who created these disasters into office.  Austin's citizens are getting what they deserve. 

In New Orleans a recall election of an incompetent and corrupt Mayor, LaToya Cantrell, with unanswered "crime waves, issues with street projects and garbage pick-up.... [who] has also faced speculation regarding her travel expenses, with the City Council investigating her use of public funds."  In spite of all that, the recall failed because they couldn't get enough valid signatures.  The fact is the Democrat party is destroying Louisiana, offering "a poor economy, substandard public schools, dilapidated infrastructure, and a reputation for dishonest politicians."

In Chicago, a city with strong gun control laws by the way, crime, including murder on a massive scale has turned that once great city in to a sewer of misery for it's citizens, who are also the enablers of that misery. As this piece notes:

 The decision to commit a crime in Chicago has never been easier. Criminals are almost guaranteed to profit because the chances of getting caught and punished have collapsed to near-zero,”........“The chance of getting arrested in Chicago for a major crime collapsed to just 5 percent in 2022.....“The arrest rate for criminal sexual assault? Just 3 percent. Ditto for Motor Vehicle Thefts. Burglaries were at only 4 percent and Robberies, 5 percent. “For thefts over $500, the chance of getting busted is even lower, at just 1 percent. There were just 201 arrests out of 20,041 crimes reported last year. And you’ll avoid arrest 96 times out of 100 across any form of theft, which The New York Times recently reported.

Amazingly, the possibility of getting caught and facing prison time....has become so insignificant in the Windy City that it is no longer a serious consideration.

·         Nearly 20 Shot Friday into Sunday Night in Chicago

·         ‘Criminals Will Run Wild’: Illinois Becomes First State to Abolish Cash Bail

The article goes on to note regarding Seattle:

Meanwhile, in Seattle, the picture is every bit as bleak. On Aug. 31, the Seattle Police Department stated that the Pacific Northwest city had reached 50 homicides for the year, with four months remaining on the calendar. Seattle had 52 homicides in all of 2022.........Criminals “no longer fear the police because they understand that the police are literally handcuffed for being able to effectively do our jobs so they’re emboldened,” Seattle Police Officers Guild (SPOG) President Mike Solan told KOMO radio.  “Officials with the SPOG estimate the department has lost around 600 officers since 2020,”.......

Well, this is a story that gets more interesting all the time.  One of the biggest Defund the Police nitwits was a woman named Shivanthi Sathanandan, who at the time was "the 2nd Vice Chairwoman for the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, i.e., the Democratic Party." screaming for "social justice", exhorting her listeners, “Say it with me. Dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department,” she wrote in a Facebook post at the time. “It has ‘systematically failed the black community,’ so it’s ‘time to build a new infrastructure that works for all communities.’”  But, “Social justice” preening can be an emotionally rewarding experience for leftist political figures. But, as has been stated in the past, being mugged can make a substantial change in perspective, just "like a punch to the face."

It turns out she was “violently carjacked”, along with her children, and this was done right in her own driveway by four armed young men, who beat her badly, even threatening the neighbors who wanted to help, unarmed neighbors. She ended up with "a broken leg, deep lacerations on my head, bruising and cuts all over my body".  And now,  guess what?  She has rage.  Imagine that. 

Conclusion?  Democrat elected mayors and district attorneys are dangerous to your heath, and living an those cities is dangerous.  Other than the cities already discussed, let's include Albuquerque, Baltimore, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Memphis, and Milwaukee. 

America's major cites are now “War Zones”:

Crime rates are soaring all over the nation, and this is especially true in heavily populated urban areas.  The complete and utter lawlessness that we are witnessing has caused many pundits to describe our largest cities as “war zones”, and unfortunately that is not an exaggeration at all.  In fact, there are some zip codes in Chicago where young adult males are more likely to be shot and killed than U.S. soldiers were during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq…

Crime-infested municipalities run by Democrats are far from a new phenomenon.  

"In the past decade alone, I've written numerous columns detailing the crime and violence that plague the parts of America where the politics of Democrats reigns supreme and virtually unchallenged.  As Fox News reported just last month, in 2020, 73% of all murders in America took place in just 5% of U.S. counties." The ten counties with the most murders were

·         Cook County, Illinois, 775 murders

·         Los Angeles County, 691 murders

·         Harris County, Texas, 537 murders

·         Philadelphia County, 495 murders

·         New York City's five counties, a combined 465 murders

·         Wayne County, Michigan, 379 murders

·         Shelby County, Tennessee, 311 murders

·         Maricopa County, Arizona, 299 murders

·         Baltimore City County, 291 murders

·         Dallas County, 281 murders

"Guess what each of the counties have in common.  If you said, "Democrat leadership," you are correct!  And it's not even close!"  

In less than a decade Denver, turned from being the Rocky Mountain High to Rocky Mountain Hellhole:

 

Denver is becoming America’s crime capital”.......Now it’s raining crime, drugs, homelessness, illegal immigrants, and many other big city urban blights.........is now worse than New York City or Chicago, and growing increasingly dangerous as the new year begins........Auto theft is now an epidemic in Denver and the second highest in the nation”, according to Denver Police Department data. Nearly 100 vehicles are stolen every day in Denver and rather than “rainin’ fire in the sky”, Colorado is raining car thieves, now leading America in auto thefts per capita..........“Growing troubles with elevated property and violent crime, low first responder recruitment, high homelessness concentrations, and growing drug overdoses played large roles in the low ranking.”...........

 

 Colorado has a Democratic trifecta and a Democratic triplex. The Democratic Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature.” Colorado’s woes sit exclusively at the feet of the donkey party.............Does Democrat leadership correlate with high crime? Yes, it does. The Daily Signal found, “27 of top 30 crime-ridden cities run by Democrats.........

 

The article also mentions how so many former residents of California moved there and brought their stupidity with them.   

Let's finish with this piece by Victor Davis Hanson entitled, Life Among the Ruins.  

The few sowed the wind, and the many reaped their whirlwind..........We are suffering an epidemic of premodern barbarism...public defecation, urination, fornication, and injection continue unabated. Progressive urban pedestrians pass by holding their noses, averting their gazes, and accelerating the pace of their walking........All accept that defunding the police, no-cash bail, Soros-funded district attorneys, and radical changes in jurisprudence have destroyed deterrence. The only dividend is the unleashing of a criminal class to smash-and-grab, carjack, steal, burglarize, execute, and assault—with de facto immunity. Instead we are sometimes lectured that looting is not a crime, but lengthy incarceration is criminally immoral.........

When the law enforcers are the criminals, who will enforce the rule of law?  When the national leaders are engaged in treason, who will save the nation?