Tammy Bruce: If Guns Are So Readily Available Everywhere Else, Why Is It That Chicago Is A Bloodbath?
"Why is the desolation and violence in America’s inner cities only getting worse? That question takes on an even more urgent implication considering the Democrats have been in charge of those cities for generations. Now, during a time of pandemic and general Democratic Party panic during an election year in which it’s becoming more and more apparent, the instinct of the incompetent and corrupt politicians running these cities cannot take any responsibility for their failure and destruction caused by their policies. The blame game has taken on an entirely new art with Democrats in charge of the disasters unfolding in front of us. Consider the great American city of Chicago, Illinois. Yes, it’s a city that has had a problem with gun violence for decades. What feeds that problem, as it does in many other liberal urban areas, is the fact that Chicago has “gun control,” making it less easy for law-abiding citizens to defend themselves, while becoming too inviting for those who wish to do harm to a community. (snip) [Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot] told CNN, “The fact of the matter is our gun problem is related to the fact that we have too many illegal guns on our street, 60% of which come from states outside of Illinois. We are being inundated with guns from states that have virtually no gun control, no background checks, no ban on assault weapons, that is hurting cities like Chicago.” When Ms. Lightfoot blames guns from out of state, one must ask, if it’s because there’s no gun control in those other places, why is it only Chicago that has become a blood-soaked hellscape? She can’t answer that question because the answer would indict liberal policies in every Democratically-held city. It’s a good point. Why is it that the most dangerous cities are those run by Democrats, especially those with hardcore gun restrictions that only affect law abiding citizens? Why do the areas run by Republicans not have these problems? Heck, why do places run by non-crazy non-progressive Democrats not have these problems? We don’t have problems like this here in Raleigh, but up in Durham it’s a lot more dangerous. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, caused a disturbance a few weeks ago by suggesting the same thing during a social media townhall. About the rise of violence in New York, she referred to the economic crisis, unemployment and rent concerns. The implication was those who are poor or struggling, seamlessly move from being normal, law-abiding people into mindless criminals. It’s an insult to every American, and exposes the contempt with which leftist politicians hold the average citizen. No one should be surprised that Democrats hold citizens in contempt. What is undeniable to everyone, apparently except Democratic Party leadership, is the incendiary rhetoric condemning the police, and law enforcement in general, is fueling the willingness of marginal anarchist and Marxist groups to engage in violent mob action in urban areas run by Democrats. Why? Because for some reason the mob feels safer in blue cities. It is the literal and figurative taking of a knee in front of the mob by Democrats signaling to the malevolent everywhere that now is the time to cause mayhem and destruction." Read the article and the underlying links. But the following stood out to me: "Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York Democrat, caused a disturbance a few weeks ago by suggesting the same thing during a social media townhall. About the rise of violence in New York, she referred to the economic crisis, unemployment and rent concerns. The implication was those who are poor or struggling, seamlessly move from being normal, law-abiding people into mindless criminals. It’s an insult to every American, and exposes the contempt with which leftist politicians hold the average citizen." AOC drops the veil. The problem is that if AOC were poor this is how she would respond, so she slanders the poor assuming and projecting that they would do as she would do and become petty criminals. The reality is the average person of lower means is not a criminal. It is the progressives who have the propensity to criminality. Examples are the months of riots in our progressive cities. Keep this in mind, the Dems/progressives are projecting upon the rest of us what they either do or would do. Take them at their word; they have strong criminal propensities, are those the people you want in positions of power? Stupid Is as Stupid Does
"From Louisiana comes this tale of young criminal masterminds: Two people are accused of committing murder during an armed robbery in Ouachita Parish. According to court documents, it happened on Brown Street in Richwood on July 29, 2020. Louisiana State Police say they were notified of an alleged homicide around 5 p.m. that same day. LSP stopped a speeding car on La. Highway 17 in Franklin Parish. The driver was identified as Michael Dewayne Mitchell Jr., 18. During the stop, police say they noticed the smell of marijuana. They say Mitchell admitted to smoking marijuana and a search of the vehicle was conducted. It was then that police found the body of a man in the trunk. The victim was identified as Michael Robinson Jr., 23, of Monroe. Police say Mitchell then confessed to taking part in an armed robbery which resulted in the victim’s death. Records state that he implicated another man, Cameron Powe, 19, saying the two of them robbed the victim in Richwood. Powe is accused of shooting the victim during the robbery, killing him. According to police, Mitchell said they then loaded the body into the victim’s vehicle and planned to leave the victim and the vehicle at a site in the Winnsboro area. Mitchell was stopped before he could get there. You know, when I highlight stories like this, I hesitate to point out the obvious lesson, for fear that I might be giving criminals advice on how better to get away with felonies. But then I rememember that these idiots are probably illiterate, so there is no harm in saying this: If you murder somebody and you load the victim’s body in the trunk of the car so you can dump it, obey the speed limit on your way to the dump site. Also, don’t smoke weed on your way to dump the body." Ok, the former not the latter. Misdirection Chorus
The video is a 12-minute analysis of how it is done. Just remember the Dems are lying to you not only about this but about everything all the time. The Dems have no arguments, so they misdirect. A vote for a Dem is a vote for serfdom. Just look at how it is working out in New York, New Jersey, Illinois, California, Washington, Oregon, and the other awful progressive states. CALIFORNIA'S WOKE HYPOCRISY
"No state wears its multicultural veneer more ostentatiously than California. The Golden State’s leaders believe that they lead a progressive paradise, ushering in what theorists Laura Tyson and Lenny Mendonca call “a new progressive era.” Others see California as deserving of nationhood; it reflects, as a New York Times columnist put it, “the shared values of our increasingly tolerant and pluralistic society.” In response to the brutal killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced plans to defund the police—a move applauded by Senator Kamala Harris, a prospective Democratic vice presidential candidate, despite the city’s steep rise in homicides. San Francisco mayor London Breed wants to do the same in her increasingly crime-ridden, disordered city. This follows state attorney general Xavier Becerra’s numerous immigration-related lawsuits against the Trump administration, even as his state has become a sanctuary for illegal immigrants—complete with driver’s licenses for some 1 million and free health care." This is more slander of Rio than of California. Yes, Rio survives in a miasma of crime and corruption but it does not have all of the other idiotic political nonsense California brings to the table. "Despite these progressive intentions, Hispanics and African-Americans—some 45 percent of California’s total population—fare worse in the state than almost anywhere nationwide. Based on cost-of-living estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 28 percent of California’s African-Americans live in poverty, compared with 22 percent nationally. Fully one-third of Latinos, now the state’s largest ethnic group, live in poverty, compared with 21 percent outside the state. “For Latinos,” notes longtime political consultant Mike Madrid, “the California Dream is becoming an unattainable fantasy.'" Kotkin makes a serious error here. The progressive intentions are to make the vast majority of people into serfs, force them to live in dense hellish cities, while the super-wealthy elites live the life of the elites from Metropolis. None of this is an accident. The word "despite" is in error, the plan is to create a new feudal society. The Democratic Party is the party of slavery, Jim Crow, KKK, segregation, and the welfare plantation. Tired of the small welfare plantation, the Dems now want to grow the plantation to enclose all of the middle, working, and lower classes as well. Don't worry, upper-middle-class; they will come for most of you in the end. Drug addicts flock to Midtown Manhattan to deal and use drugs
Democrats have become the party of disintegration. The Dems hate successful Americans and are actively supporting and protecting the forces of decay, destruction, and despair. Perhaps it is time to put them out to pasture. Bill Clinton stayed on Jeffrey Epstein's 'orgy island' with the billionaire, Ghislaine Maxwell and 'two young girls' - and the pedophile said the ex-president 'owes me favors'
This is in character for both men; whether it is true is unclear, but I suspect we will find out (if Ghislaine survives her trial). Hopefully, she has already deposited the evidence with several trustworthy individuals who will be able to disseminate it if she is suicided like Epstein. Mother-in-law interrupts the bride's personalized vows to claim that her son has 'no flaws' before threatening to have guests arrested
They also cause much of the failure to launch problem by making the son dependent. The young man living in their mother's basement is a phenomenon often driven by an oedipal mother. The violent young men rioting in Portland are often the spineless dependent sons of an oedipal mother. Sidebar thoughts: young women should not marry simps like this "man." Any man who is cowed by such shockingly boorish behavior by his mother will make an incompetent husband and a nonexistent father. For whatever reason, the Millennial generation often suffered under the oedipal mother's dependency creating restrictions. The result is young men incapable of acting with agency, the mother becomes a repository for their agency, and they become a dependent vassal meekly adhering to the dictates of the oedipal mother. This simp fits the bill, although it is unclear whether the "mother" is his mother or grandmother. The grandmother outs the simp to the police as an arsonist using an explosive device in an attack against the US Courthouse in Portlandia. GRANDMA UNINTENTIONALLY IDS ANTIFA TERRORIST GRANDSON WHO THREW BOMB AT FEDERAL AGENTS IN PORTLAND The tragedy here is that these simps are trying to find a valid male right of passage that will provide them with both an entrance into the adult male world and sexual value in the mating world. The destruction of civilization is not a valid right of passage, as the Bill Ayers story shows us. The Bill Ayers story also shows us that people who start down the road to civilization destruction tend not to deviate from that road except as a subterfuge. The progressive movement by embracing civilization destruction establishes that it is a malignant secular cult that must be razed. These young, violent criminals need to be treated firmly in the justice system by charging them with all crimes committed, and, if convicted, sentenced to long prison sentences of many years in prison, with 3-5 years of 10 hours per day, six days per week public service work upon parole. This parole, like all parole, should require the convict to perform substantial time cleaning up the graffiti in our cities. The criminals should be required to pay for their room and board in halfway houses or other facilities and the cost of transportation to and from the cleanup sites. If they do not like that arrangement, they should be allowed to serve out their entire prison sentence. Sidebar: Evolution has created the ability for women to be far more amoral than men. This is because if society breaks down, women still must mate with the most successful men in the new "normal" or humankind will face extinction. Men, on the other hand, have far less evolutionary imperative to moral flexibility to avoid human extinction. What this means is the women at the riots will generally be slightly more amoral than the men in society. But the problem is that the men at the riots are simps. They sycophant themselves to women first because they view young women as surrogates for their oedipal mothers, and second because simps are always hoping for but, seldom, or never getting sex. These pressures make the simp amoral or even immoral. The results is these young men are willing to behave antisocially to attract the attention of the women. The violent spasm has nothing to do with George Floyd and everything to do with the simps failure to launch, and simping for women. Opinion | Americans can survive seeing two versions of ‘the dress.’ But not two versions of protests.
"It’s both soothing and sad to recall that there was a time, not so long ago, when America’s attention could be commanded by a controversy as harmless as “the dress.” Remember that photo? Some people saw a white and gold dress; others insisted it was blue and black. Neither could understand how anyone could see anything different. But after some head-shaking, the two camps walked away friends. The Internet is full of such optical illusions, which simultaneously expose our brain’s hidden subsystems and their mistakes. Some, like the dress, highlight hiccups in our visual cortex. But others reveal more troubling flaws in the way we integrate the information we acquire — flaws that are becoming more pressing as the nation absorbs video of protests happening in Portland, Ore., and elsewhere. For example, there’s a “selective attention test” available on YouTube that illustrates perceptual distortion by asking you to count the number of times certain players pass a basketball to each other. Go ahead and do it if you’re interested, because further down, I’ll spoil the punchline. You might imagine that the biases exposed by exercises such as these get worse when politics gets involved. But no need to use your imagination. Researchers at the Yale Cultural Cognition Project showed people a video of protesters clustered around the entrance to a building and asked them to decide whether the protesters were illegally blocking the entrance. The first twist is that they showed two protest videos — one involving a military recruiter, the other an abortion clinic — and found that it didn’t matter which video you saw as much as whether your politics agreed with the protesters. The second twist is that these were actually the same underlying video. Only the subtitles of what was happening had been altered. Even without the press of politics, we’re prone to pretty serious processing errors. If you watched the selective attention test, did you see the gorilla? For those who didn’t, there’s a guy in a gorilla suit — except people are often so intent on counting passes that they don’t notice. This “inattentional blindness” is so profound that I once showed that video to someone whose brother worked for the professor who made it, and not only did he fail to see the gorilla, he didn’t even spot his own brother passing basketballs. Our blind spots are already, in other words, pretty significant. Add politics in, and they can make it hard to see anything straight. This weekend, a short clip circulated on Twitter, showing a female protester in a street as a line of cops advances. One officer shoves her, hard enough to make her stumble and drop her cellphone; seconds later, a man flies in from outside the frame, smashing into the cop and knocking him to the ground. Other officers wade in; other protesters do the same; the chaos resolves, after a lot of shoving, with protesters on the ground being handcuffed. I saw it via GQ’s Julia Ioffe, who tweeted, “This isn’t the police keeping the peace. This is them treating their fellow citizens as enemy combatants.” Many replies echoed the sentiment. Others saw, with equal conviction, police responding with restraint after being physically attacked. Neither was wrong about what was in the video: A police officer was attacked, American citizens were manhandled. But all anyone saw was the element that had commanded their attention — and that was whatever fit the story they were already telling about violent protests or police brutality. Video is inherently a heavily edited medium. Someone chooses what you see, and unscrupulous editors can use those choices to force viewers into an optical illusion. But even studied neutrality involves choosing where to point the camera and how long to keep it on. But because video contains so much rich visual information, we tend to feel as if we’re there instead of receiving a highly selective retelling. That makes video seem more authoritative than other mediums. That authority can be a force for good: Cellphone cameras made debates over police tactics less a matter of whether to believe accusers than whether to believe your own eyes. But we still need to remember that what we’re seeing is in some sense an illusion, stripped of vital context by the narrow funnel of a camera lens — and that there can be giant holes in how we integrate what we do see into the rest of what we know. What happened before and after? How representative of the whole scene, or American society, are the events shown? What is it actually like to be there, breathing tear gas, dodging fireworks? Americans have forgotten to ask themselves those questions. Instead, they’re wondering why the other side can’t see the plain truth. America can easily survive seeing two dresses. But we’re in pretty bad shape when the visual distortion field is large enough to encompass the most important issues facing our country." Oregon Governor Declares Victory Over Feds, DHS Says We're Not Going Anywhere Yet
She has no idea what she was negotiating or what the final agreement meant. She thought the feds were leaving; they weren't, too bad, so sad to be Turbo Karen. Now it is her State Police who will take the brunt of the violence from Turbo Karen's earlier failure to act, well, and Ted "Ork" Wheelers failures to act. |
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