After Backing Massive Police Funding Cuts, De Blasio Blames In Part Lack Of Police For Jump In Crime

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After just saying, "For seven years, we have made this city safer".HIS failed, DUMB-o-cRAT policies are to blame..let's free prisoners..catch and release criminals, and give RIOTERS space...

Reparations: what would ever be enough?

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*There are sections of Baltimore that you simply dare not enter after dark. Fifty years ago when I was a kid, Baltimore was rough, but nowhere near as violent and out-of-control as it is today. Hellholes of black on black crime such as Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, and Baltimore have been run by Democrats for decades. Reparations are not the solution.

Black Lives Matter Sues to Stop Trump Helping Fight Crime in Chicago  "Black Lives Matter has filed a lawsuit to prevent the Trump administration from sending federal assistance to law enforcement to help battle the spiraling crime wave in Democrat-led Chicago.
"BLM officials filed the suit in federal court on Thursday that seeks to prevent President Donald Trump from sending 200 federal law enforcement officials to help Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot tackle the soaring crime in the city.
"The local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America joins Black Lives Matter’s Chicago branch as a plaintiff for the lawsuit, in which, federal law enforcement officials are named as defendants in a civil rights claim.
"President Trump announced Wednesday that he would be sending federal law enforcement officials to several cities, including Chicago, as part of Operation Legend to fight the violent crime that has been surging since the recent Black Lives Matter protests.
"The primary victims of that crime wave have been African American, the president and his administration have noted." . . .
Might one suspect a troll to hurt Trump's approval with African-Americans?

GoFundMe for Black Woman Who Painted Over BLM Mural Exceeds $6k . . . "Beatty is the young woman who went viral Saturday by painting black over the BLM mural in front of Trump Tower in NYC.
"While smearing black paint, Beatty shouted “Refund the police! Refund the police! Jesus Matters! Jesus Matters!” . . .

*Reparations: Democrats Scam and Insult Blacks Again  "A congressional hearing was held on a bill to study reparations for blacks as payback for slavery. Reparations is simply another worm Democrat presidential candidates will put on the hook of their fishing rods to catch black votes.
"I am a black man who is proud, grateful and understands how blessed I am to be born an American. My response to the Democrats’ reparations scam is, “Please stop!”. Please stop telling black Americans that we are crippled, inferior and are helpless children who can only succeed via government handouts, lowered standards, and special concessions. Just stop it!
"The Civil War effectively ended slavery in 1863. After 8 years of Americans making a black man the leader of the free world, Democrats are absurdly claiming blacks are suffering the negative repercussions of slavery and deserve a check. These people (Democrats) are evil, divisive, race-baiting and race-exploiting con artists.
"In Maryland in the early 1950s, my late dad was among a handful of blacks who broke the color barrier to become Baltimore City firefighters. Despite humiliating racism within the fire department, Dad won “Firefighter of the Year” two times. Dad didn’t desire reparations or insulting lowered standards. All Dad and his fellow young black trailblazers desired was an opportunity to compete." . . .  Written by Lloyd Marcus, The Unhyphenated American 

Much more at the Tunnel Wall

AOC Attacks Home Owners, Squad Pushes Bill To Strip Property From Owners To Make Things ‘Fair’

News Thud

. . . "Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota at the same time introduced a bill that would strip property rights from Americans; it’s called the Rent and Mortgage Cancellation Act, which is a socialist dream.
"The bill would cancel all rent and mortgage payments regardless of income or employment throughout the duration of the pandemic.

“The bill would constitute a full payment forgiveness, with no accumulation of debt for renters or homeowners and no negative impact on their credit rating or rental history,” a news release from Omar’s office says.

"A fund would be created “to fully finance the purchase of private rental properties by non-profits, public housing authorities, cooperatives, community land trusts, and states or local governments — in order to increase the availability of affordable housing during this downturn.” 
"This means private property owners would be undermined and the power of government entities would be greatly increased.
"This is just another fine example of the Democrats trying to use the pandemic to pass as many socialist policies as possible."   The Hill | Western Journalism 

Rep. Louie Gohmert: ‘It’s Time to #CancelDemocrats’

Congressman introduces resolution demanding name change for party tied to Confederacy and Klan.
I can see all Republicans but maybe Mitt Romney going for this.

Further, as Bruce Bartlett points out in his book, Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past, for a century after Reconstruction, “The Jim Crow laws were enacted by Democrat legislatures and signed into law by Democrat governors. It could not have been otherwise, since there were virtually no Republicans in positions of authority in state governments in the South after the end of Reconstruction in 1877.”

Jeffrey Lord  "Many on the left and their willing accomplices in the media would tell you otherwise, yet a cursory examination of our nation’s factual history and records proves the riots and chaos that have swept across our country in recent months stand as a devastating reminder of the racist policies and values held by the Democratic Party throughout much of its history.

"Because of this, I introduced a privileged resolution in the House calling upon Congress to acknowledge the indecorous history of the Democratic Party. I asked that the Speaker of the House be instructed to ban any political organization or political party that ever publicly supported slavery or the Confederate States of America.

"Since George Floyd’s tragic killing on May 25, the left which includes their “mainstream” Democrats, have resurrected their push to rid our nation of any entities, symbols, or reminders of the repugnant aspects of America’s past. Statues of American leaders have been torn down, defaced, and destroyed regardless of whether they were a party to improprieties or fought against them. The liberal mob is out in full force demanding that schools, sports teams, music artists, military installations, and even food products change their names if they have the slightest reference to any persons or events deemed unacceptable and offensive to the groupthink of the Marxist left." . . .  More here ...

Pelosi: ‘Trump Virus’ Is ‘Rolling Like a Freight Train’ — ‘Biggest Failure’ in History

Democrats regard our voters, especially millennials, to be so easily manipulated by phrases and fake news that Pelosi feels she can just utter the words "Trump virus" and it will go viral on posters, chants, and MSNBCNN talk shows. Can our electorate really be that stupid? We'll know in November. TD

Breitbart  "Thursday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) called President Donald Trump “the biggest failure in the history of our country.”

"She said “the Trump virus” was rolling like “a freight train through the country.”

Pelosi said, “Let me say this president has been the biggest failure practically in the history of our country. A pandemic that is rolling. Trump virus I call it, it’s rolling like a freight train. It took nearly 100 days, just about 100 days to get the first 1 million. Just under 50 days to get to the second million, just over 25 days to get to the third million and now, just, what, 14, 17 days to get to the 4 million mark of people infected.”

She added, “Just think if he had thought that these overrated tests weren’t overrated a long time ago how many lives could have been saved. But you said it very well, 4 million people, 18 straight weeks of people filing for unemployment insurance, a time when people are—millions of children are food insecure. Just so many people going to food banks who never thought they would. Evictions imminent because the moratorium will end. People are hungry. They’re concerned about their housing, the jobs, and the rest, and the Republicans are saying, well, let’s just wait around until Monday to see what we might be able to come to terms with among ourselves. Two months and eight days ago we put forth the HEROES bill, very responsible, lean and mean, exactly what we needed to open up our economy by testing, testing, testing, rewarding our heroes with assistance to state and local government and money in the pockets of the American people. In a very strong way. This all will expire in, like, a week.”

San Francisco Giants Pitcher Sam Coonrod Refuses To Kneel During The National Anthem, Cites His Christian faith

Daily Caller  "San Francisco Giants pitcher Sam Coonrod refused to kneel during the national anthem Thursday night against the Dodgers.

"According to NBC Sports, members of the Giants took a knee during the national anthem, and Coonrod didn’t join them. Every member of both teams also kneeled before the anthem. The pitcher also didn’t participate in that action. The reason why? His Christian faith." . . .

“ 'I ’m a Christian, like I said, and I just can’t get on board with a couple of things that I have read about Black Lives Matter. How they lean toward Marxism and they’ve said some negative things about the nuclear family. I just can’t get on board with that,” Coonrod explained to the media, according to the same NBC Sports report.

"He also said that he “can’t kneel before anything besides God.” . . .

San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Sam Coonrod was the only player who refused to take a knee prior to the national anthem Thursday, nor did he bow to the Black Lives Matter agenda.  . . . “I’m a Christian, like I said, and I just can’t get on board with a couple of things that I have read about Black Lives Matter. How they lean towards Marxism and they’ve said some negative things about the nuclear family,” Coonrod said, according to NBC Sports Bay Area. “I just can’t get on board with that.”

"The pitcher added that he didn’t make his decision against kneeling until very near the game and also did not discuss his intentions with his team.

"Giants manager Gabe Kapler said he supported Coonrod’s choice.

“  'The one thing that we said is we were going to let people express themselves,” Kapler said after the game. “We were going to give them the choice on whether they were going to stand, kneel, or do something else. That was a personal decision for Sam.”

"Captioned “we are one,” the video of the demonstration posted to social media pointedly did not show Coonrod’s refusal to participate." . . . One at what?

Yankees and Nationals kneel in unison before the first game of season just days after Trump said the game was 'over' for him when players took a knee - as the president plays catch with Mariano Rivera at the White House

A very dubious claim of sexual harassment against Tucker Carlson ...

PowerLine  "Cathy Areu, a liberal who used to provide comic relief on Tucker Carlson’s show, has accused the Fox News host of sexual harassment. In a lawsuit filed in the Southern District of New York, Areu claims that after her final 2018 appearance on Carlson’s show in December of that year, one of his producers or writers told her that Carlson wanted her to stay until the very end of the show to chat with him. After the show, Carlson allegedly told her he would only be attending that night’s office Christmas party for about ten minutes. He added that he was alone in New York City, and would be staying in his hotel room without his wife or kids.

"Areu infers that Carlson “was probing to see whether [she] was interested in a sexual relationship.” Areu did not go to Carlson’s hotel room (nor, according to her account did he ask her to)." . . .

I’ll say this for Areu’s complaint against Carlson and Hannity. It may be inconsistent with the facts, but it’s consistent with the ditz persona she used to display on Fox News.  . . .  

 Holes Emerge in Cathy Areu’s Lawsuit Against Fox News Hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity

"Inconsistencies are emerging in claims made by Cathy Areu, a once-periodic Fox News guest, that she was harassed by some of the network’s biggest names — including prime time anchor Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. New emails obtained by Mediaite shed further light on the case. In a lawsuit filed on Monday in the Southern District of New York, Areu claims she was harassed by Carlson, Hannity and other employees of the network, and that she was largely barred from appearing after she declined their advances. In an initial response the company said the claims were “completely false.' ”

'Independent’ Facebook fact-checker exposed as partisan smear factory packed with CNN alumni

In reading this source one must ask why they posted this, though I guess the Russian press would know propaganda media when they see it. Many of us here know the MSM is referred to as American Pravda.

First this: BREAKING: American Pravda III – CNN Associate Producer, “Voters Are Stupid As Sh*t”   "Project Veritas’ newest video from the American Pravda: CNN series exposes Jimmy Carr, the Associate Producer for CNN’s New Day attacking President Donald Trump and admitting that CNN has a left-leaning bias." . . . Biden would seem to disagree: Joe Biden Goes on Wild Tangent, Basically Accuses Americans of Being Stupid and Racist
We know the weaknesses of this President, yet he stands between us and the ever more feared and threatening radical left. Meaning Democrats. TD
Russia Today

"Facebook fact-checker Lead Stories is a biased outfit bristling with ex-CNN staffers that presents itself as neutral, despite most of its employees having donated to the Democratic Party, a conservative outlet has revealed.
"The National Pulse (TNP), whose story about supposed financial links between Black Lives Matter, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, and fundraiser ActBlue was flagged as “partly false” by Lead Stories on Facebook, did some digging on Wednesday to find out who was behind the smear, after their efforts to contest the label were apparently stonewalled.

What they discovered was an organization staffed almost entirely by Democratic donors, half of whom had worked for CNN in the past. A quarter of the employees were recurring Democratic donors, TNP revealed, suggesting an egregious conflict of interest, given the story they’d flagged at the conservative outlet was about contributions to a Democratic presidential campaign.

"Lead Stories founder Perry Sanders has donated over $10,000 to Democratic political campaigns, including Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s presidential runs, TNP showed, providing copious links to back up the laundry list of partisan affiliations it had stumbled across. Several other writers had Democratic contributions on their records too. One, Gita Smith, was listed in 99 separate small-dollar donations to various Democratic candidates, as well as some contributions directly to ActBlue and the activism group Indivisible." . . . More

Don Lemon Takes Cognitive Test On Air to Own the Orange Man, Screws It Up

. . . What makes this newsworthy is the venom that Lemon constantly spews and was attempting to spew during this segment. Why is he wasting airtime trying to bash Trump for talking about taking a cognitive test? It’s his network that’s been obsessing over Trump not taking one. He took one and now he’s not supposed to talk about the results? But when it comes to Trump, he can’t win with these people. They’ll hound him about his cognitive abilities and then when he proves they are fine, they’ll mock him for taking the test to show they are fine.  . . .

But they were just a merry caravan and did not attack this man in a hostile way. Just ask MSNBC

Black Lives Matter rioters attacked man with cerebral palsy: 'I thought they were going to kill me'

"Columbus cops are on the hunt for Black Lives Matter activists who attacked a man with cerebral palsy during recent riots.

"CPD released video July 8 showing a large crowd at the intersection of High Street and Broad Street surround Eldon Hawkins’ vehicle.

"The victim, confused by the chaos, had his windows smashed, personal items stolen and “BLM” graffiti sprayed on the car’s hood." . . .

Listen to the voices of youth screaming, products of the American school system

. . . "The video documents people engaging in violent behavior directed at a victim with Cerebral Palsy and his vehicle as well as others who actively came to his rescue and attempted to stop the violence.
"Columbus Police is interested in identifying persons of interest responsible for the violence as well as eye witnesses to include those who came to the victim’s rescue." . . .

Senate Democrats Propose $350 Billion Reparations Measure to ‘Address Systemic Racism’

T.I. Demands Reparations: $44 Trillion, $1 Million for Every Black Descendant of Slaves  Sure, fine. But that will never end the accusations from the likes of Hollywood, Democrats, and of course, the Sharptons, MSNBC, CNN. Will the reparations then allow police to arrest the random attackers, the murderers, and those like the above? TD


Black Lives Matter Sues to Stop Trump from Sending Help to Fight Crime in Chicago
Do these people actually live in the threatened areas?

MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Still Claims Portland Filled With ‘Peaceful Protesters’

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Tom Cotton Introduces Bill to Prohibit Federal Funding for Schools Using ‘1619 Project’ Curriculum

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National Review  . . . The 1619 Project, named after the year when colonists first brought slaves to the U.S., attempts to retell American history by emphasizing the importance of slavery in the country’s earliest years. However, historians have criticized the project for basic “factual errors” and a ” displacement of historical understanding by ideology.” (One example of such an error in the project is the assertion that the colonies revolted from British rule in order to preserve slavery.)
"“The New York Times’s 1619 Project is a racially divisive, revisionist account of history that denies the noble principles of freedom and equality on which our nation was founded,” Cotton said in a statement. “Not a single cent of federal funding should go to indoctrinate young Americans with this left-wing garbage.”
"According to Cotton, the bill would not affect federal funding allocated to low-income or special-needs students.
"The Times has announced plans to incorporate material from the project in public school curricula. Districts in several major cities including Chicago, Ill., and Washington, D.C., have adopted some of these materials." . . .

Revisionists at it again: The '1619 Project' is bad history fueled by bad motives  "Every decade or so, a new revisionist fad will captivate some small — and invariably loud — subsect of American “historians.” It happened, most memorably, in the 1960s and ‘70s as the rise of Marxist professors swept through our universities. Slowly but surely the grift was seen for what it was — bad history based on bad motives. But a good deal of damage was done, as thousands of university students were indoctrinated to interpret American history as an ongoing drama of class conflict and nothing more. We see the effects of this education playing out today. 
. . . "Neither party cares that the dissemination of their distortion of America’s story will lead, like the teachings of the Marxists of yesteryear, to the weakening of our shared social fabric. " . . .

Portland Man Hits Woman With a Saw, Bystanders Call Cops Racist for Arresting Him

RedState  Portland continues to sink into the abyss, as violent riots have swept the city for months now (see Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Leads Protests In Portland Wed. Night – Feds Didn’t Change Tactics). But the chaos doesn’t just come out at night. The city is also seeing a spike in other crimes, including violent ones. One was caught on video recently, with Andy Ngo reporting on the incident.

"The following video shows a man entering a laundromat and hitting a woman with a saw before leaving the scene. Viewer discretion is advised.

"According to Ngo, police pursued the man, who had obviously just committed a heinous crime. What was the response? Bystanders gathered around the officers screaming at them that they were racist for trying to make the arrest.

"We’ve entered the twilight zone, or at least large parts of the country have. When it’s now racist for police to arrest someone who just committed a violent crime minutes beforehand, what exactly even is the standard at this point? Never arrest anyone non-white again? That might seem ludicrous, but that’s actually part of the argument we are hearing from the intersectional left. They say that because the system is “racist,” people are corrupted by that system to commit crimes, therefore the system is still to blame and not the individual. It’s how you get mayors across the country letting violent criminals back out onto the streets under the ridiculous notion that they were simply oppressed and will do fine now." . . .

MSNBC Blames Federal Police For ‘Riotous Behavior’ In Portland

‘Liberal Sherpa’ sues Tucker Carlson, claims he ‘sexually harassed her’ – by taking his jacket off on set

Law Enforcement Today  "In what could be construed as frivolous, Tucker Carlson has been named among other Fox News figures in a lawsuit that alleges Carlson made some suggestively inviting comments to engage in promiscuity with a former guest on his show, Cathy Areu.
. . . 

"A Fox News spokesperson responded to the lawsuit, stating the following: 
. . . 
Perhaps she wasn’t invited back to the show because of ridiculous comments like referring to babies as “theybies” – since you wouldn’t want to offend their gender identity that hasn’t formed yet.

Or perhaps that one 2018 segment where she argued that words like “mailman” are sexist language. Don’t forget how she championed when colleges brought in “cry closets” for students stressed about finals....

..." 'Based on the findings of a comprehensive independent investigation conducted by an outside law firm, including interviews with numerous eyewitnesses, we have determined that all of Cathy Areu’s claims against FOX News, including its management as well as its hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity & Howard Kurtz and its contributor Gianno Caldwell, are false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit.”

"It’s painfully obvious that the show simply didn’t want to host the “Liberal Sherpa” any longer, and to bring about a lawsuit alleging retaliation seems a bit of a far cry based upon evidence at hand.

"But, we all know this isn’t about a lawsuit – it’s a means to weaponize a civil suit to create a headline and a character attack." . . .  Cathy Areu at length

Fox News sent a full statement on the matter with witch Cathy Areu to the Deseret News:  “Based on the findings of a comprehensive independent investigation conducted by an outside law firm, including interviews with numerous eyewitnesses, we have determined that all of Cathy Areu’s claims against FOX News, including its management as well as its hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity & Howard Kurtz and its contributor Gianno Caldwell, are false, patently frivolous and utterly devoid of any merit. We take all claims of harassment, misconduct and retaliation seriously, promptly investigating them and taking immediate action as needed — in this case, the appropriate action based on our investigation is to defend vigorously against these baseless allegations. Ms. Areu and Jennifer Eckhart can pursue their claims against Ed Henry directly with him, as FOX News already took swift action as soon as it learned of Ms. Eckhart’s claims on June 25 and Mr. Henry is no longer employed by the network.”