George Soros is behind a lot of this, as well as spending millions or even billions in getting DA's like Gascon in L.A. and Boudin in SF elected to keep criminals on the streets and defund police and thus create chaos in the cities to destabilize everything. I'd wager that a huge portion of the voters don't have any idea who Soros is.
I'm sure you're correct. He's also spent a bunch of $$$ for Philadelphia's DA and I believe that nitwit in Chicago. I believe Soros also funded that screwball congresswoman from St. Louis.
What I cannot figure out is WHY voters elect these lunatics. It's not like they were secretive about their plans if elected.
He's 91 years old. Perhaps his reign of terror will end soon.
I think there's a lot of people in the tech world that have a lot of $$$ and fund democrats. Zuckerberg is just one of the richest of them all. I could never figure out why these people would vote against their own interests financially but I guess it's all part of my simulation.
Because when there's a problem, we can talk about it all we want, cash money is what makes things happen. Make no mistake, the buying of influence has allowed people like Zuckerberg and Soros to create these liberal cesspools which would normally be at least slightly right of center. The election of 2020 was a disaster because of Democrat operatives that worked to create chaos, mail-in-voting, and other ailments to the system that allowed Joe Biden, a guy with near-zero enthusiasm to win an election.
What I don't understand is 1. What is Soros' motivation in all of this? 2. Why isn't there a billionaire out there that promotes conservative republican DAs and other conservative local politicians, police chiefs, etc? Why is it always that the Democrats seem to have someone willing to fund the conspiracy (Jeff Zuckerberg, George Soros, etc.).
People give Soros way too much credit. It's more like the average person is uninformed and votes the way they think people they want to like them might be voting.
I'm ok with defending the government. But it requires people to be vigilant. If a robber thought he may not make it back to his hole with his loot. He might think twice about going there.
This is why God invented men.
So women and children would be safe. When men began to be outnumbered by their bastard spawn. Men invented weapons. As weapons improved and became smaller and more lethal women and children could both protect and assault one another.
We have never been closer to living in a Thoreau world.
I'm not always OK with defending the government. There's a video going around about a man in Nevada who had nearly 100K of cash taken from him by the DEA for no reason at all other than "it might have been drug money." I believe government needs to be put in check too and I don't think that police should have free reign to do whatever they want. It's a push and pull and we need to make sure that government/police do not abuse their authority and that we maintain our individual freedoms and civil liberties. Do I think Derek Chauvin abused his authority? Absolutely. Do I believe he's a murderer that should have a life sentence? Absolutely not.
And yet, the people behind the defund the police movement stay in positions of power and influence, so, they step back for a moment and then wait for the opportunity to step back in and create more mayhem and death.
You can’t negotiate or tolerate sociopathy folks, it is relentless in it’s hate, lust for power, and absolute annihilation of societal boundaries…
Yes, we can just plan for a race baiting summer of riots every other year with elections. BLM gets quiet after 2016 elections, not inactive, just quieter (Ms. Cullor was busy buying houses,) then all hell rolls out before 2020 elections. Next summer should be a treat.
I agree with you DividedUpWorld, it's hard to imagine that a sizable chunk of defund advocates aren't stone cold sociopaths, but to what end? Serious question: some are angry at their dad, family, teacher, success, dad, junior high, gym class, dad, prom, women, boss, dad, etc. while others just love to watch chaos ("Burn! I don't have to work! Spliff!"), total Beavis types. But what's the deal on the rest? For instance the city council woman who voted to defund cops then called the cops over an Uber driver who had his window down - obviously she's a mindless low beast caricature, and those who voted for her are the low I.Q. ex-hippy types or chronically on-line losers or the Lost Brains with chemical breath, and all useful idiots... but useful to who? How do the George Soros types benefit?
Nah, Soros is another old man who is beyond fixed and rigid in his agendas, why we have to realize, those over 70 are NOT of benefit to society these days, too many decades of having inappropriateness reinforce the selfishness, shamelessness, and soulless nature of these deficient leaders and idiots of influence.
you are right, sociopaths have different focuses and agendas, but, the end result from these humanoids among us is decay, destruction, and death. They need to be so relentlessly, pervasively, and rudely marginalized and ostracized from the community, they either flee or, will up the ante and try to use violence to win, and thus, self defense is the final ostracizing act.
Too many want to be Civil Acquiescing and Tolerant Stooges with these Despicable Obnoxious Grotesque Sociopaths, why I note we are dealing with CATS and DOGS...
Only here 10 more days, hope my perspectives are of value......
I am ending my subscription to Alex's site. He is a good man with exemplary purpose, but, he is, to me, another person who is about being too polite, civil, and tolerant of very bad behaviors and agendas by leftist "people" who need to be very rudely, bruskly, and relentlessly shown to the country's borders and told in so many words, "get the fuck out of here, you sociopathic scum!"
that cowering and kneeling by 150 or more millions of "Americans" really hasn't accomplished much to protect our elderly, children, other dependents, and most of all, THEMSELVES!!!
I would love to watch a show like Cops where social workers are sent out to deal with crazed, violent individuals. The entertainment value would be fantastic!
That part of the whole defund thing made me laugh. Social workers are not magic. They can't just go over to a domestic dispute and use their magic words to calm down the dude threatening his wife with a steak knife. They can't just go talk sense into that schizophrenic in the middle of a violent episode.
Yeah, but crime went up everywhere regardless of police numbers. Alex, please share more C19 stories like you used to do on Twitter. Example..ALPA (organization for all US pilot unions) released their death figures. 2019 (1 pilot death) 2020 (6 pilot deaths) 2021 (111 deaths and just for 9 months). Coincidentally pilot deaths "spiked" when the vaccines rolled out. Pilots are already more prone to cardiovascular issues so they they could be a good bellwether indicator. Alex should investigate this. https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/are-100-dead-us-airline-pilots-trying
12 major cities had record homicide rates this year while many other cities had an increase but off of historic lows. The story is a lot richer than "crime went up everywhere".
Wait a second! I thought "the smart people" told us that all they need were social workers to go out and explain the benefits of being nice. Crazy that hasn't worked. Probably need to double down.
A dozen democrat controlled cities with record homicides? Shocking. Who could have imagined such a thing. The internal migration from anarcho-tyranny cities like SFO, Portland and NYC to red states is going to be like a global refugee crisis by 2023.
These cities are run by utter fools whose voters are indoctrinated losers. The universities are much to blame as the radicals from the ‘60’s turned teachers have been teaching principles that they believe would correctly reshape our once strong and proud country. It’s been going on for years, but they can be happy that their efforts are finally gathering steam. And the illiterate but woke youth will continue this destructive movement. Nothing but evil behind the scenes. That’s the way evil works, and it’s right before our eyes. There’s only one way to fight evil, and people don’t want God in this mix, which is exactly what is needed.
the leaders of these cities win huge majorities every election and despite the mayhem of 2020 which continues are in zero danger of being replaced. I do not think the voters are indoctrinated, it is much worse than that.
Incentivized is a much better word. This is a system that is over 50 years old and has been perfected to reward poor long term decisions by rewarding bad behavior regarding family formation and work ethic. Good decisions are punished and bad short term decisions are incentivized. This is a "system" that gets exactly the results it looks for. An impoverished underclass at the mercy of its political leaders who have sold them out but can depend on their support as the other choices have been ruled out as far too risky.. The police have always been the enforcement end of the welfare state but the pols threw them under the bus when things got out of hand. It worked and now the police are working themselves back into the good graces of their bosses.
Maybe someone smarter than me can explain. if Minneapolis was an example of systematic racism in law enforcement would that not apply to those that were in charge of administering law enforcement. No doubt the mayor would be hounded out of office and the people would demand a new DA. Wholesale changes would be necessary. Did I miss something? It appears the same crew is there doing the same stuff as before? It stands to reason, if the system is rotten and has been poorly serving its most vulnerable citizens, the events of 2020 would be the catalyst for real change. So why are the people in charge then still in charge?
Possibly but I am betting that the mayor and DA will cruise to reelection if they have not already done so. Sad to say but they are popular with the people the emiserate.
That's what these "defund the police" idiots like Ted Wheeler never understood. The people are protesting AGAINST YOU AND YOUR CRAPPY POLICIES! For them to pretend they are leading the charge and saving us from the racism of their own departments is fucking hilarious.
but appears to be working. No pol in the cities that are experiencing this mayhem is under any threat of losing his or her job. As I said elsewhere, the police are the enforcement end of the welfare state. Its been their job to keep a lid of things. It blew off in 2020 and the Wheelers and their ilk did what pols too, they threw their own guys under the bus to save their skins. tell me it hasn't worked.
You have described the SYSTEM in systematic. They can now hire the gangs who have been the interim police force in the absence of Cops with clean records. "The spice must flow!"
Out here in Seattle the lefties over the past 18 months have managed to whittle down the police department by about one-third. The crime and murder rates have skyrocketed. Easily solved chirped mayor Jenny "Summer of Love" Durkan. "I'll simply call them back to work." None were waiting by the telephone. Easily solved cried herzhonor Durkan. "We can invite people in to take the police academy entrance test - no appointment necessary. Just come on in. Coffee and donuts provided." Half the available seats sat empty. The pass rate, you ask? Less than 50% and most of those who passed the written test flunked the physical part. Perhaps too many donuts. Lesson learned: Be very careful of what you wish for. You just might get it.
I heard that the police in Seattle (that are still there…) wear shirts under their uniforms with a picture of the Seattle skyline and the words “Let it Burn”. Can’t say I blame them. Gotham City…
What I would love to see is a politician like Durkan call the police in a panic for protection and discover than no one will respond to her call. Then she would be on her own.
Interestingly, she was all for "The Summer of Love" and had no intention of tearing down the CHAD autonomous zone. Then Kshama Sawant, the communist member of the city council doxed her by marching on her person residence with about 600 of her followers. The very next day Ms. Jenny had the police tear down the CHAD encampment. As heavily armed as the CHAD folks were not a shot was fired as the frontloaders moved in..
Yes Kern, those in charge have free will to do as they please. Their bad decisions, crazy decisions, unjust decisions, self-profit decisions will suffer no consequence. When you have nothing to lose you can easily destroy to your heartless content...insane, merciless Liberals. Wish I believed in Karma.
And on a totally different topic (cuz I can’t comment on the Covid article) straight out of the Jacksonville, FL daily news rag-and the typos are theirs: “In Jacksonville, starting on Monday, Head Start and Head Start locations are requiring kids two-years-and-older will have to wear a mask indoors. The only exceptions are while napping, eating, or drinking, or if diagnosed with a disability that hinders them from wearing one.”
It’s always the poor kids that the feds go after first. The least among us.
Wow...in Florida...I thought DeSantis did something about mask mandates...
Poor kids though. Some of these younger kids have grown up remembering nothing other than having to cover half of their face and looking at everyone elses face half covered. Imagine what long-term impacts that will have upon speech and language development, social skills development and cueing, and just general anxiety and paranoia of just living and breathing naturally. Disgusting what these so-called leaders are doing to the weakest in our society... the youngest and the oldest.
I had to laugh when I heard Adam Corolla today on Prager's show....he said this is like crate training a dog. The older people are more set in their ways and thus harder to convince and change, but the masking of young kids is like crate training a dog into obedience. So it's obedience training for the future.
Yep. Wuttashock. My sister in law lives in a high rent area of Minneapolis and was car jacked at 4:30 in the afternoon last week leaving the super market. They beat her up pretty badly and destroyed her car as they were attempting to steal it until some good samaritans came to her rescue and called the cops. My brother said the cops were great. They generally are good at the thing called fighting crime.
Manhattan for 30 years. A family of my expensive 80/20 building had a mother that was in a wheelchair from a gun shot wound. Truly lovely young woman. Her eldest son went off to college, her younger one went to a life of crime, selling drugs in the stairwell and breaking into apartments. While doing laundry one evening at 5pm two dangerous types came into the room and unplugged the security cameras then approached me, I bee-lined it out of door leaving my possessions behind. Literally found a house in the burbs the next day.
Understand that I had been witness to nyc crime in the past (out with friends when they were slashed with knives back in the late 80’s.) I vowed I’d never live through high crime again. My resolve was magnified after having kids… Best of luck to your SIL.
This morning ZeroHedge had an article about adjacent communities (Edina, MN) suffering from roving / mobile bands of criminals coming over from Minneapolis carjacking their citizens. Didn't sound like their Mayor et al were much in the mood for any defunding. Good read.
Intelligence agencies crack down on parents at schoolboard meetings, but do nothing about roving hordes of criminals and antifa terrorists. Anarcho-tyranny.
Oh yes, one more. Boston University school paper demanding complete dismantling of the campus police over high risk to black / brown students. They claimed 8 negative interactions with police / students since 1972. Really? I'm betting analysis of those 8 interactions going back 50 years would show the black / brown person driving the negative side of the interaction. Any takers on that bet? Thought not.
Charlie Baker ran as a republican because the democrat field is always too crowded. That is, lose the primary and you're done. There are no challengers on the republican ticket.
That said, he's not a republican--he plays one on TV.
Wow. Yes. Been following that story. The people of Mass. will reap what they sow in this lunatic. Maybe she will be a wake up call to the "normal" liberals. We'll see. My bet is she takes her ego for an unbridled ride and digs a hole she cannot get out of.
Simply surreal a person like RR is considered good for America and what America was founded on. How is it possible she was able to slip into such a high level position. Crazzzzzy!
I think the Progressive social experiment is in hyper exponential mode. Fortunately it is the equivalent of a bottle rocket, hauling ass at the moment but soon to reach maximum height and explode. I use to worry about the foundations of conservatism, no longer, as the Democratic Party has allowed the most insane to take over, driving the middle back to the Right, it only takes 7 to 8% of the voters to move the needle. We are there. Conservatives simply need not eff it up.
To expect a corrupt and vile administration to implement policies that really help people, is like expecting the devil to change his spots. Ain't gonna happen.
Do we have a perfect world, with perfect people? Is there no sin in the world? Are all people perfectly truthful, without deceit? Then we need law enforcement, which also is not perfect, to keep order. Or we all end up in chaos. Do we have chaos in our cities and streets? I leave it to you to answer the question.
Ah yes George Soros (90 yrs old and widely seen as in dementia) the de-fund funder-- like all billionaires who THINK they are intellectually superior to us ""deplorables" -- it can be quickly shown that no they're not. I feel for the people who's lives are being affected by this. I hope they all remember who it is who is funding this trend.
I've lived in Minnesota my entire life, except for the couple of years I was in the Army and stationed in the south. Aside from that, I've been fortunate enough to have a job where I traveled around the country on a regular basis, so I had seen a lot of the US prior to being 22. Since then, I've often said that the Twin Cities is the best overall place to live in the country when taking all factors into consideration like crime, cost of living, natural features, schools, health care, etc. We really do have it all, while also having a relatively (prior 2020), diverse and tolerant community.
After the events that have taken place, and the dramatic shift in culture from tolerance to radical persecution of societal norms, I quickly moved my family "up north" where I'm from originally.
I don't know if this is a nationwide trend or not, but many of us have noticed that violent crimes are going woefully unreported and certainly not covered by the media. Hopefully this increase in police spending will start to right the ship once again.
One only has to cast their minds back in very recent history to Venezuela where Chavez literally stopped funding, or seriously underfunded, the legacy municipal police forces in Caracas. 'New' shadown police forces were established and were being run by bad actors 'nominated' into positions by Chavez's people. The predictable result was that the good cops left the force and the vacuum created was filled by criminals (essentially the Government and it's lackeys, AKA The Collectivos) with skyrocketing crime (it was getting bad anyway but this was one of many accelerants). In conclusion the left loves crime and disorder to keep the fear-porn real (like many Liberal / Dem-run cities) while they live the good life. No change there then!!!
Leftists are always experimenting on the public. When they need to sell it they use a single individual to tug at the heartstrings. When it fails (it always does), those individual victim's pictures aren't plastered across the television screens night after night. The victims of the experiment don't matter. People who would otherwise be enjoying the holidays with their families this year are no longer here due to the experiment.
The simple solution to all of this craziness would be to properly discipline officers that violate human rights. They don't do this because the police are the enforcement wing of the corporate state.
It’s easy for the Leftist leadership to manipulate crime rates by not arresting or charging, except in the cases of murder where the dead bodies tell the tale. Guess they couldn’t figure out a way to cover that up.
We've got to remember Biden's theme of "Build Back Better, " there is a reason for that slogan. Their plan is to tear virtually everything down top the ground so they can build it back into a cesspool that they consider better. Remember Obama's "fundamentally change America" line as well.
I'm all for funding the cops. But, it is kinda sad that even the craziest wokesters conform to the dominant political position: always increase government.
I was in Little Mogadishu last week .... it's getting really quite bad and impacting the first ring (wealthy) suburbs like Edina and the Lakes area. The liberals certainly can't have that ... need to keep it contained in the 'urban' areas.
AOC said that cities without police would like like (white) suburbs. I guess that didn't happen. Major cities resembled the Rwandan civil war. Communists usually are wrong about everything.
All I have to say about defunding the police, we the American people will then take matters in our own hands. The government has broken the laws. Blm, ANTIFA have broken the laws. We have stayed the course, and obeyed the laws. Since the laws no matter anymore, there’s nothing to obey anymore. Chaos Will ensue, or not. Like that pos Biden, I’m out of patience. I want my country back. This transgender bs better back down. There’s only two genders. Quit using their terms.
Yes, they had to do this because the crime topic has entered the man governors race despite the best efforts of all local media to suppress the issue. Crime watch mpls Twitter account (https://mobile.twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls) wouldn’t stay quiet, people’s holiday shopping was interrupted abs finally the media had to mention the problem. This is the way…DO NOT GO SILENT. Keep talking, mocking, calling them out…and realize most government official and politicians have a 95% chance of being bought and paid for controlled opposition…so question everything and everyone!
Why would a LEO want to work there anymore? A mayor who’s feckless and a city council filled with malcontents. No thanks, I’d move somewhere more welcoming.
Soros DAs are rampantly releasing criminals back into the cities to commit more crimes and murder more people. There really is no more thankless a job right now than an urban cop these days.
What’s the easiest way to take rights away? Get the people to beg to take them away and pay for it as well. Now you throw a big budget at police force, extra pay. Everyone votes Republican and they come in creating new laws to “clean up the mess” meanwhile taking more and more Rights away. All of us cheer that they are going to stop the Blue wave, meanwhile both sides get the Australia/China treatment. Democrats and Republicans - 2 heads, one beast. The worldwide financial coup. Happening right under our noses. Hope. Peace. Love. Harmony. Light. Truth.
While this is true, the alternative seems worse. I've always been a conservatarian. I think the police are just like everyone else. Some are great, most are acceptable and some are abominable. I don't agree with the leftist mobs that claim every police involved shooting is genocide and I don't agree with those on the right who never find fault with the cops. Each incident needs to be judged on its merits (what a concept!) and we should closely monitor what these men and women with guns and badges do, ostensibly on our behalf.
They could hire a thousand Police Officers but if the Minneapolis Mayor, the Police Department’s leadership, and Minneapolis Prosecutor’s Office aren’t on board with “proactive policing” Police Officers are going to continue driving around with their blinders on. And who could blame them?
Yes, but think of how many good trustworthy members of the force they were able to push out and will now be able to replace with hand-picked corrupt toadies loyal to them. Australia here we come!
People died. But that's somehow Donald Trump's problem. Because Blue-city politicians can never be the ones responsible for their life-ending policies.
Its only Trumps problem because he is and still remains a real threat to the commiecRATS agenda behind the curtain and who exist throughout the corridors of Washington. commiecRAT 101 is to deny and project. Whatever they accuse you of doing...they are in fact doing.
Sadly one cannot have civilised rules and leave the security of citizens to be dependant on the voluntary abidance of rules when the parts of the population have no respect or regard for civility, rule of law and respect for others.
What SANE man or woman who wears the uniform in one of these BLUE cities or states would risk his or her life for (woke) residents, courts, and politicians who in a nanosecond will go after them with pitchforks against ANY allegation of impropriety? Today, they're considered guilty when proven innocent...in the corrupt (& woke) Corporate Media. Can you blame some/many police officers for looking out for #1 & protecting their pension...TODAY?
OMG!! A smart decision!! Not until all the dopes Who made the decision to defund the police are out of public office which includes the city Council, the mayor, and governor Walz will we have any credible Police Officers wanting to come back to Minneapolis…..
Come on, who are you going to replace these losers with, people with conscience and true interest and effort to help the public?
We don’t have people like that, these failures in office were elected by equivalent public losers who are likely selfish shameless and soulless as well as a majority, these horrific leaders don’t come out of a alternative universe or alternative reality…
Defunding police was idiotic to begin with. Keep locking up criminals and try this ... use the Soviet or the Russian prison model. IE... cold water, no heat, swill and no color tv or workout facilities.
De-fund the police must be the single most boneheaded idea to ever come along.
Well, after shutdown for the coronavirus.
I would say voting for Joe Biden
I would say not enforcing the Anti Communist Act.
So many options to choose from! So many boneheaded ideas.
Lmao!! It’s so sad, so completely pathetic that it’s hysterical
George Soros is behind a lot of this, as well as spending millions or even billions in getting DA's like Gascon in L.A. and Boudin in SF elected to keep criminals on the streets and defund police and thus create chaos in the cities to destabilize everything. I'd wager that a huge portion of the voters don't have any idea who Soros is.
I'm sure you're correct. He's also spent a bunch of $$$ for Philadelphia's DA and I believe that nitwit in Chicago. I believe Soros also funded that screwball congresswoman from St. Louis.
What I cannot figure out is WHY voters elect these lunatics. It's not like they were secretive about their plans if elected.
He's 91 years old. Perhaps his reign of terror will end soon.
I think there's a lot of people in the tech world that have a lot of $$$ and fund democrats. Zuckerberg is just one of the richest of them all. I could never figure out why these people would vote against their own interests financially but I guess it's all part of my simulation.
What makes you think that money is a solution to the problem?
Because when there's a problem, we can talk about it all we want, cash money is what makes things happen. Make no mistake, the buying of influence has allowed people like Zuckerberg and Soros to create these liberal cesspools which would normally be at least slightly right of center. The election of 2020 was a disaster because of Democrat operatives that worked to create chaos, mail-in-voting, and other ailments to the system that allowed Joe Biden, a guy with near-zero enthusiasm to win an election.
Not without help from many Republicans
I guess they're trying to buy influence.
Nature doesn't like a vacuum. Most people are evil. Because almost everyone will trade their life,time,talent and freedom for money.
We call anyone who takes a vow of poverty a bum.
What I don't understand is 1. What is Soros' motivation in all of this? 2. Why isn't there a billionaire out there that promotes conservative republican DAs and other conservative local politicians, police chiefs, etc? Why is it always that the Democrats seem to have someone willing to fund the conspiracy (Jeff Zuckerberg, George Soros, etc.).
There are now two Republican candidates for US Senate who both worked for Peter Thiel: Blake Masters in Arizona and JD Vance in Ohio.
I don't know how much financial backing he's providing.
People give Soros way too much credit. It's more like the average person is uninformed and votes the way they think people they want to like them might be voting.
It made sense ONLY to Democrats. Defunding the police was NOT a conservative republican view.
I'm ok with defending the government. But it requires people to be vigilant. If a robber thought he may not make it back to his hole with his loot. He might think twice about going there.
This is why God invented men.
So women and children would be safe. When men began to be outnumbered by their bastard spawn. Men invented weapons. As weapons improved and became smaller and more lethal women and children could both protect and assault one another.
We have never been closer to living in a Thoreau world.
I'm not always OK with defending the government. There's a video going around about a man in Nevada who had nearly 100K of cash taken from him by the DEA for no reason at all other than "it might have been drug money." I believe government needs to be put in check too and I don't think that police should have free reign to do whatever they want. It's a push and pull and we need to make sure that government/police do not abuse their authority and that we maintain our individual freedoms and civil liberties. Do I think Derek Chauvin abused his authority? Absolutely. Do I believe he's a murderer that should have a life sentence? Absolutely not.
Not if you are trying to deconstruct a nation.
True. The dumb people were those who went along with it.
No, the most boneheaded idea was putting letters after candidates' names on ballots...
Secret ballots are a Communist idea.
And yet, the people behind the defund the police movement stay in positions of power and influence, so, they step back for a moment and then wait for the opportunity to step back in and create more mayhem and death.
You can’t negotiate or tolerate sociopathy folks, it is relentless in it’s hate, lust for power, and absolute annihilation of societal boundaries…
God, you are so smart; that was a brilliant point. Loved your second paragraph. Merry Christmas.
thanks, but not brilliant for me, just advocating zero tolerance for evil.
Yes, we can just plan for a race baiting summer of riots every other year with elections. BLM gets quiet after 2016 elections, not inactive, just quieter (Ms. Cullor was busy buying houses,) then all hell rolls out before 2020 elections. Next summer should be a treat.
The seemed to keep their powder dry for the main elections (Google Trends 'blm' didn't tick up much in 2018)
I agree with you DividedUpWorld, it's hard to imagine that a sizable chunk of defund advocates aren't stone cold sociopaths, but to what end? Serious question: some are angry at their dad, family, teacher, success, dad, junior high, gym class, dad, prom, women, boss, dad, etc. while others just love to watch chaos ("Burn! I don't have to work! Spliff!"), total Beavis types. But what's the deal on the rest? For instance the city council woman who voted to defund cops then called the cops over an Uber driver who had his window down - obviously she's a mindless low beast caricature, and those who voted for her are the low I.Q. ex-hippy types or chronically on-line losers or the Lost Brains with chemical breath, and all useful idiots... but useful to who? How do the George Soros types benefit?
He’s betting against the dollar. That’s how he benefits.
Nah, Soros is another old man who is beyond fixed and rigid in his agendas, why we have to realize, those over 70 are NOT of benefit to society these days, too many decades of having inappropriateness reinforce the selfishness, shamelessness, and soulless nature of these deficient leaders and idiots of influence.
you are right, sociopaths have different focuses and agendas, but, the end result from these humanoids among us is decay, destruction, and death. They need to be so relentlessly, pervasively, and rudely marginalized and ostracized from the community, they either flee or, will up the ante and try to use violence to win, and thus, self defense is the final ostracizing act.
Too many want to be Civil Acquiescing and Tolerant Stooges with these Despicable Obnoxious Grotesque Sociopaths, why I note we are dealing with CATS and DOGS...
Only here 10 more days, hope my perspectives are of value......
Where are you going in ten days?
I am ending my subscription to Alex's site. He is a good man with exemplary purpose, but, he is, to me, another person who is about being too polite, civil, and tolerant of very bad behaviors and agendas by leftist "people" who need to be very rudely, bruskly, and relentlessly shown to the country's borders and told in so many words, "get the fuck out of here, you sociopathic scum!"
that cowering and kneeling by 150 or more millions of "Americans" really hasn't accomplished much to protect our elderly, children, other dependents, and most of all, THEMSELVES!!!
It’s evil!
What? All of those social workers they hired didn’t curtail the surge? 🤷♀️
They didn't build the locals' self esteem enough. They probably had unconscious bias.
I would love to watch a show like Cops where social workers are sent out to deal with crazed, violent individuals. The entertainment value would be fantastic!
Ya, I think after several were killed on the job, they couldn't fill the vacancies.
That part of the whole defund thing made me laugh. Social workers are not magic. They can't just go over to a domestic dispute and use their magic words to calm down the dude threatening his wife with a steak knife. They can't just go talk sense into that schizophrenic in the middle of a violent episode.
really are ANTIsocial workers.
Yeah, but crime went up everywhere regardless of police numbers. Alex, please share more C19 stories like you used to do on Twitter. Example..ALPA (organization for all US pilot unions) released their death figures. 2019 (1 pilot death) 2020 (6 pilot deaths) 2021 (111 deaths and just for 9 months). Coincidentally pilot deaths "spiked" when the vaccines rolled out. Pilots are already more prone to cardiovascular issues so they they could be a good bellwether indicator. Alex should investigate this. https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/are-100-dead-us-airline-pilots-trying
12 major cities had record homicide rates this year while many other cities had an increase but off of historic lows. The story is a lot richer than "crime went up everywhere".
There were far more pilot deaths than that in both 2019 and 2020. There's something wrong with that data.
I can't imagine many people are going to willingly join any police force now a days, let alone MSP's.
Wait a second! I thought "the smart people" told us that all they need were social workers to go out and explain the benefits of being nice. Crazy that hasn't worked. Probably need to double down.
Liberalism always generates the exact opposite effect of it's stated Intent.
😂🤣
A dozen democrat controlled cities with record homicides? Shocking. Who could have imagined such a thing. The internal migration from anarcho-tyranny cities like SFO, Portland and NYC to red states is going to be like a global refugee crisis by 2023.
You can add Seattle to the list. The majority of our friends and family have already fled, and we're searching for our own landing spot.
MuzziesArent the only ones with Immigration Jihad (Koran 47-100).
The DhimmiMuzzie convergence continues.
It was a fad. Temporary. It will pass.
These cities are run by utter fools whose voters are indoctrinated losers. The universities are much to blame as the radicals from the ‘60’s turned teachers have been teaching principles that they believe would correctly reshape our once strong and proud country. It’s been going on for years, but they can be happy that their efforts are finally gathering steam. And the illiterate but woke youth will continue this destructive movement. Nothing but evil behind the scenes. That’s the way evil works, and it’s right before our eyes. There’s only one way to fight evil, and people don’t want God in this mix, which is exactly what is needed.
Hippies survive 40 years at colleges never had to survive in the real world. Preaching their nonsense to young brains filled with mush.
Yes....like Bill Ayers, mentor to Obama, who has been in a cushy, well paid university for decades working to indoctrinate the minds of his students.
the leaders of these cities win huge majorities every election and despite the mayhem of 2020 which continues are in zero danger of being replaced. I do not think the voters are indoctrinated, it is much worse than that.
They're indoctrinated with the desire to get something paid for by others.
Incentivized is a much better word. This is a system that is over 50 years old and has been perfected to reward poor long term decisions by rewarding bad behavior regarding family formation and work ethic. Good decisions are punished and bad short term decisions are incentivized. This is a "system" that gets exactly the results it looks for. An impoverished underclass at the mercy of its political leaders who have sold them out but can depend on their support as the other choices have been ruled out as far too risky.. The police have always been the enforcement end of the welfare state but the pols threw them under the bus when things got out of hand. It worked and now the police are working themselves back into the good graces of their bosses.
Excellent summary of this mess.
Maybe someone smarter than me can explain. if Minneapolis was an example of systematic racism in law enforcement would that not apply to those that were in charge of administering law enforcement. No doubt the mayor would be hounded out of office and the people would demand a new DA. Wholesale changes would be necessary. Did I miss something? It appears the same crew is there doing the same stuff as before? It stands to reason, if the system is rotten and has been poorly serving its most vulnerable citizens, the events of 2020 would be the catalyst for real change. So why are the people in charge then still in charge?
Two words. ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY
Possibly but I am betting that the mayor and DA will cruise to reelection if they have not already done so. Sad to say but they are popular with the people the emiserate.
Google Soros funded DA’s...see if Minneapolis’ is on there.
Because, in general, the most vulnerable (voting) citizens are vulnerable because they're not very bright.
Many will vote for any inept monster just because it's a name they might recognize and/or there is a "D" beside the name.
Touche.
That's what these "defund the police" idiots like Ted Wheeler never understood. The people are protesting AGAINST YOU AND YOUR CRAPPY POLICIES! For them to pretend they are leading the charge and saving us from the racism of their own departments is fucking hilarious.
but appears to be working. No pol in the cities that are experiencing this mayhem is under any threat of losing his or her job. As I said elsewhere, the police are the enforcement end of the welfare state. Its been their job to keep a lid of things. It blew off in 2020 and the Wheelers and their ilk did what pols too, they threw their own guys under the bus to save their skins. tell me it hasn't worked.
You have described the SYSTEM in systematic. They can now hire the gangs who have been the interim police force in the absence of Cops with clean records. "The spice must flow!"
Out here in Seattle the lefties over the past 18 months have managed to whittle down the police department by about one-third. The crime and murder rates have skyrocketed. Easily solved chirped mayor Jenny "Summer of Love" Durkan. "I'll simply call them back to work." None were waiting by the telephone. Easily solved cried herzhonor Durkan. "We can invite people in to take the police academy entrance test - no appointment necessary. Just come on in. Coffee and donuts provided." Half the available seats sat empty. The pass rate, you ask? Less than 50% and most of those who passed the written test flunked the physical part. Perhaps too many donuts. Lesson learned: Be very careful of what you wish for. You just might get it.
I heard that the police in Seattle (that are still there…) wear shirts under their uniforms with a picture of the Seattle skyline and the words “Let it Burn”. Can’t say I blame them. Gotham City…
What I would love to see is a politician like Durkan call the police in a panic for protection and discover than no one will respond to her call. Then she would be on her own.
Interestingly, she was all for "The Summer of Love" and had no intention of tearing down the CHAD autonomous zone. Then Kshama Sawant, the communist member of the city council doxed her by marching on her person residence with about 600 of her followers. The very next day Ms. Jenny had the police tear down the CHAD encampment. As heavily armed as the CHAD folks were not a shot was fired as the frontloaders moved in..
Very interesting development.
Yes Kern, those in charge have free will to do as they please. Their bad decisions, crazy decisions, unjust decisions, self-profit decisions will suffer no consequence. When you have nothing to lose you can easily destroy to your heartless content...insane, merciless Liberals. Wish I believed in Karma.
And on a totally different topic (cuz I can’t comment on the Covid article) straight out of the Jacksonville, FL daily news rag-and the typos are theirs: “In Jacksonville, starting on Monday, Head Start and Head Start locations are requiring kids two-years-and-older will have to wear a mask indoors. The only exceptions are while napping, eating, or drinking, or if diagnosed with a disability that hinders them from wearing one.”
It’s always the poor kids that the feds go after first. The least among us.
So kids don't breathe while napping? There's an epidemic of idiocy among educators.
Wow...in Florida...I thought DeSantis did something about mask mandates...
Poor kids though. Some of these younger kids have grown up remembering nothing other than having to cover half of their face and looking at everyone elses face half covered. Imagine what long-term impacts that will have upon speech and language development, social skills development and cueing, and just general anxiety and paranoia of just living and breathing naturally. Disgusting what these so-called leaders are doing to the weakest in our society... the youngest and the oldest.
Head Start is a federal program so I guess the feds are in charge. DeSantis is an amazing Governor and is doing everything that he can possibly do.
Agree 💯....we need more like him!!
I had to laugh when I heard Adam Corolla today on Prager's show....he said this is like crate training a dog. The older people are more set in their ways and thus harder to convince and change, but the masking of young kids is like crate training a dog into obedience. So it's obedience training for the future.
Classic 😂 love Corolla!!
You get what you Vote for..... Hopefully Nov 2022 will be the Political end of the Democrapic Party and RINO Traitors.
Yep. Wuttashock. My sister in law lives in a high rent area of Minneapolis and was car jacked at 4:30 in the afternoon last week leaving the super market. They beat her up pretty badly and destroyed her car as they were attempting to steal it until some good samaritans came to her rescue and called the cops. My brother said the cops were great. They generally are good at the thing called fighting crime.
Sorry for your SIL and hopes for speedy recovery.
Thank you. They have been talking about moving for the last year. Now they know they will.
Manhattan for 30 years. A family of my expensive 80/20 building had a mother that was in a wheelchair from a gun shot wound. Truly lovely young woman. Her eldest son went off to college, her younger one went to a life of crime, selling drugs in the stairwell and breaking into apartments. While doing laundry one evening at 5pm two dangerous types came into the room and unplugged the security cameras then approached me, I bee-lined it out of door leaving my possessions behind. Literally found a house in the burbs the next day.
Understand that I had been witness to nyc crime in the past (out with friends when they were slashed with knives back in the late 80’s.) I vowed I’d never live through high crime again. My resolve was magnified after having kids… Best of luck to your SIL.
This morning ZeroHedge had an article about adjacent communities (Edina, MN) suffering from roving / mobile bands of criminals coming over from Minneapolis carjacking their citizens. Didn't sound like their Mayor et al were much in the mood for any defunding. Good read.
Intelligence agencies crack down on parents at schoolboard meetings, but do nothing about roving hordes of criminals and antifa terrorists. Anarcho-tyranny.
The Alphabet agencies are Antifa. They’ve used these tactics all over the globe. What isn’t normal is they’re now using it against their own citizens.
Antifa in Germany were recently beating people on trains for not wearing masks. Oligarch goon squads with full establishment support.
Another example of lunatics running the asylum. Complete idiocy. And everyone pays the price. George Soros can pitch straight to hell.
Oh yes, one more. Boston University school paper demanding complete dismantling of the campus police over high risk to black / brown students. They claimed 8 negative interactions with police / students since 1972. Really? I'm betting analysis of those 8 interactions going back 50 years would show the black / brown person driving the negative side of the interaction. Any takers on that bet? Thought not.
It's going to be even more fun now that Massachusetts has a new US Attorney: a real lunatic Rachel Rollins.
See: Soros funded.
Why did MA guvnr (R) decide not run for a third term? Why did he push vaccine QR codes the week before he announced he wouldn’t seek a 3rd term?
Charlie Baker ran as a republican because the democrat field is always too crowded. That is, lose the primary and you're done. There are no challengers on the republican ticket.
That said, he's not a republican--he plays one on TV.
Rosie, he doesn’t even play one....but you knew that.
Yes, and not a very good one!
He's not really a republican... trust me I live in MA... probably making a 2024 Presidential run
God help us.
In the past, when some nitwit politician didn't seek re-election, my first thought was, "Good."
Now my first thought is, "Damn. We'll still be paying his state pension."
Oh yeah... presidential aspirations for sure...
https://patch.com/massachusetts/norton/s/hzpt6/2m-athome-covid-tests-coming-to-hardesthit-ma-towns?utm_source=alert-breakingnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert
Funny how there's no more news about the Holyoke nursing home incidents and all those elderly who perished... Kind of like NY, NJ, MI....
Hahaha 😂 so true...and sad 😭
Wow. Yes. Been following that story. The people of Mass. will reap what they sow in this lunatic. Maybe she will be a wake up call to the "normal" liberals. We'll see. My bet is she takes her ego for an unbridled ride and digs a hole she cannot get out of.
Most Massholes didn’t have the opportunity to vote for or against her. She was Suffolk County DA before Biden nominated her.
Simply surreal a person like RR is considered good for America and what America was founded on. How is it possible she was able to slip into such a high level position. Crazzzzzy!
At the risk of sounding repetitive, see: Soros, G.
Yes...Soros is behind a lot of this stuff. People don't realize it.
Imagine paying all that tuition for BU and that's the agenda... among other things...
I think the Progressive social experiment is in hyper exponential mode. Fortunately it is the equivalent of a bottle rocket, hauling ass at the moment but soon to reach maximum height and explode. I use to worry about the foundations of conservatism, no longer, as the Democratic Party has allowed the most insane to take over, driving the middle back to the Right, it only takes 7 to 8% of the voters to move the needle. We are there. Conservatives simply need not eff it up.
To expect a corrupt and vile administration to implement policies that really help people, is like expecting the devil to change his spots. Ain't gonna happen.
Do we have a perfect world, with perfect people? Is there no sin in the world? Are all people perfectly truthful, without deceit? Then we need law enforcement, which also is not perfect, to keep order. Or we all end up in chaos. Do we have chaos in our cities and streets? I leave it to you to answer the question.
Ah yes George Soros (90 yrs old and widely seen as in dementia) the de-fund funder-- like all billionaires who THINK they are intellectually superior to us ""deplorables" -- it can be quickly shown that no they're not. I feel for the people who's lives are being affected by this. I hope they all remember who it is who is funding this trend.
His son is stepping into the role....so no end in sight without people speaking up.
I've lived in Minnesota my entire life, except for the couple of years I was in the Army and stationed in the south. Aside from that, I've been fortunate enough to have a job where I traveled around the country on a regular basis, so I had seen a lot of the US prior to being 22. Since then, I've often said that the Twin Cities is the best overall place to live in the country when taking all factors into consideration like crime, cost of living, natural features, schools, health care, etc. We really do have it all, while also having a relatively (prior 2020), diverse and tolerant community.
After the events that have taken place, and the dramatic shift in culture from tolerance to radical persecution of societal norms, I quickly moved my family "up north" where I'm from originally.
I don't know if this is a nationwide trend or not, but many of us have noticed that violent crimes are going woefully unreported and certainly not covered by the media. Hopefully this increase in police spending will start to right the ship once again.
"I quickly moved my family 'up north'"
Twin Cities is already pretty far north. Gotta be really bad it you're willing to endure even colder, more remote conditions.
We reap what we sow.
Amen.
One only has to cast their minds back in very recent history to Venezuela where Chavez literally stopped funding, or seriously underfunded, the legacy municipal police forces in Caracas. 'New' shadown police forces were established and were being run by bad actors 'nominated' into positions by Chavez's people. The predictable result was that the good cops left the force and the vacuum created was filled by criminals (essentially the Government and it's lackeys, AKA The Collectivos) with skyrocketing crime (it was getting bad anyway but this was one of many accelerants). In conclusion the left loves crime and disorder to keep the fear-porn real (like many Liberal / Dem-run cities) while they live the good life. No change there then!!!
Leftists are always experimenting on the public. When they need to sell it they use a single individual to tug at the heartstrings. When it fails (it always does), those individual victim's pictures aren't plastered across the television screens night after night. The victims of the experiment don't matter. People who would otherwise be enjoying the holidays with their families this year are no longer here due to the experiment.
My beloved home town is in ruins due to the insane leadership that they keep voting in.
Makes me think of the Pretenders/Chrissy Hines' song Rush had as his theme...My City Was Gone
I hope New York falls in line soon, if not we're going to have to move. I didn't think it possible but Hocul is as bad as Cuomo.
They should make the politicians who were in favor of this lunacy be the police/social workers.
Yeah.... But, but when are the courts going to stop letting dangerous criminals out on 1000 dollars bond?
Or are the big multinational companies going to stop giving money to blm and helping them with their legal bills? Just asking....
Listen to Daniel Horowitz podcast, he is asking the hard questions:
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/conservative-review-with-daniel-horowitz/id1065050908?i=1000542867592
I believe there could be a world somewhere that doesn't need government or police. But earth ain't it and I have my doubts it ever will be.
Just needs a lot of checks and balances.
Yeah, cue the song Somewhere, Natalie Woods or Babs Strikes-sand's versions?...
*face palm.
The simple solution to all of this craziness would be to properly discipline officers that violate human rights. They don't do this because the police are the enforcement wing of the corporate state.
The left and the right are useless....
Seriously? You think the Chicago police are the "enforcement arm of the corporate state"? Blah blah blah
go back to Vox
It’s easy for the Leftist leadership to manipulate crime rates by not arresting or charging, except in the cases of murder where the dead bodies tell the tale. Guess they couldn’t figure out a way to cover that up.
Soros-funded DAs coupled with defund the police isn’t working? It’s working for the socialists who want to bring the country down and federalize everything. https://conservativeplaylist.com/2021/12/12/democrat-run-cities-with-soros-backed-das-are-watching-crime-spiral-out-control/
We've got to remember Biden's theme of "Build Back Better, " there is a reason for that slogan. Their plan is to tear virtually everything down top the ground so they can build it back into a cesspool that they consider better. Remember Obama's "fundamentally change America" line as well.
I'm all for funding the cops. But, it is kinda sad that even the craziest wokesters conform to the dominant political position: always increase government.
I was in Little Mogadishu last week .... it's getting really quite bad and impacting the first ring (wealthy) suburbs like Edina and the Lakes area. The liberals certainly can't have that ... need to keep it contained in the 'urban' areas.
AOC said that cities without police would like like (white) suburbs. I guess that didn't happen. Major cities resembled the Rwandan civil war. Communists usually are wrong about everything.
AOC really needs to go live in one of these areas without police. She needs a reality check.
All I have to say about defunding the police, we the American people will then take matters in our own hands. The government has broken the laws. Blm, ANTIFA have broken the laws. We have stayed the course, and obeyed the laws. Since the laws no matter anymore, there’s nothing to obey anymore. Chaos Will ensue, or not. Like that pos Biden, I’m out of patience. I want my country back. This transgender bs better back down. There’s only two genders. Quit using their terms.
Remember, "outlaw" wasn't somebody who was being chased by the law, "outlaw" was somebody who wasn't protected by the law when they were hunted down.
Yes, they had to do this because the crime topic has entered the man governors race despite the best efforts of all local media to suppress the issue. Crime watch mpls Twitter account (https://mobile.twitter.com/CrimeWatchMpls) wouldn’t stay quiet, people’s holiday shopping was interrupted abs finally the media had to mention the problem. This is the way…DO NOT GO SILENT. Keep talking, mocking, calling them out…and realize most government official and politicians have a 95% chance of being bought and paid for controlled opposition…so question everything and everyone!
Why would a LEO want to work there anymore? A mayor who’s feckless and a city council filled with malcontents. No thanks, I’d move somewhere more welcoming.
Soros DAs are rampantly releasing criminals back into the cities to commit more crimes and murder more people. There really is no more thankless a job right now than an urban cop these days.
What’s the easiest way to take rights away? Get the people to beg to take them away and pay for it as well. Now you throw a big budget at police force, extra pay. Everyone votes Republican and they come in creating new laws to “clean up the mess” meanwhile taking more and more Rights away. All of us cheer that they are going to stop the Blue wave, meanwhile both sides get the Australia/China treatment. Democrats and Republicans - 2 heads, one beast. The worldwide financial coup. Happening right under our noses. Hope. Peace. Love. Harmony. Light. Truth.
While this is true, the alternative seems worse. I've always been a conservatarian. I think the police are just like everyone else. Some are great, most are acceptable and some are abominable. I don't agree with the leftist mobs that claim every police involved shooting is genocide and I don't agree with those on the right who never find fault with the cops. Each incident needs to be judged on its merits (what a concept!) and we should closely monitor what these men and women with guns and badges do, ostensibly on our behalf.
By using OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY!
Tom Wolfe called this “The Great Relearning”.
They could hire a thousand Police Officers but if the Minneapolis Mayor, the Police Department’s leadership, and Minneapolis Prosecutor’s Office aren’t on board with “proactive policing” Police Officers are going to continue driving around with their blinders on. And who could blame them?
I'm grateful my ex who was a state trooper is out of the line of fire.
Ala Dinkins
Yes, but think of how many good trustworthy members of the force they were able to push out and will now be able to replace with hand-picked corrupt toadies loyal to them. Australia here we come!
People died. But that's somehow Donald Trump's problem. Because Blue-city politicians can never be the ones responsible for their life-ending policies.
Its only Trumps problem because he is and still remains a real threat to the commiecRATS agenda behind the curtain and who exist throughout the corridors of Washington. commiecRAT 101 is to deny and project. Whatever they accuse you of doing...they are in fact doing.
I guess tearing down statues of the founding fathers and Christopher Columbus haven't led to low crime, peace and prosperity in the cities.
Sadly one cannot have civilised rules and leave the security of citizens to be dependant on the voluntary abidance of rules when the parts of the population have no respect or regard for civility, rule of law and respect for others.
What SANE man or woman who wears the uniform in one of these BLUE cities or states would risk his or her life for (woke) residents, courts, and politicians who in a nanosecond will go after them with pitchforks against ANY allegation of impropriety? Today, they're considered guilty when proven innocent...in the corrupt (& woke) Corporate Media. Can you blame some/many police officers for looking out for #1 & protecting their pension...TODAY?
OMG!! A smart decision!! Not until all the dopes Who made the decision to defund the police are out of public office which includes the city Council, the mayor, and governor Walz will we have any credible Police Officers wanting to come back to Minneapolis…..
Come on, who are you going to replace these losers with, people with conscience and true interest and effort to help the public?
We don’t have people like that, these failures in office were elected by equivalent public losers who are likely selfish shameless and soulless as well as a majority, these horrific leaders don’t come out of a alternative universe or alternative reality…
Defunding police was idiotic to begin with. Keep locking up criminals and try this ... use the Soviet or the Russian prison model. IE... cold water, no heat, swill and no color tv or workout facilities.
I suggest the City Council people in Minneapolis, that insisted on defunding the police, check in to Mayo for brain transplants.