Seattle Councilwoman Calls Cops She Wants to Defund

 PJ Media

"Ahhh, Seattle. Home of Pearl Jam, Starbucks, Amazon, and lots of other stuff that used to be cool. The Emerald City once brought to mind nothing more nefarious than flannel shirts and the occasional heroin overdose, but now Seattle’s claim to fame is violent crime. And lots of it. After a man named George Floyd died in the custody of a multiracial group of Minnesota police officers earlier this year, Seattle’s crime rate has skyrocketed. Over the summer we saw the CHAZ/CHOP lawless zone in the middle of Seattle, which accomplished nothing but driving down local property values and giving Tucker Carlson new material every night. And yet in the midst of all this crime, the city is still cutting police funding. The place isn’t as bad as Portland, Ore., yet, but not for lack of effort.

"All year we’ve watched as our leaders have failed us. Over and over again, people in power have imposed rules on us and broken those same rules with impunity. So it’s more satisfying than it should be to see one of them get their comeuppance.

"Louis Casiano, Fox News:

A Seattle City Councilwoman called the police to her home Friday to report a crime she is effectively trying to legalize…

Lisa Herbold phoned authorities on Friday after a man reportedly threw a rock through her living room window, My Northwest reported. The councilwoman said “she was on the west side of the living room near the kitchen when she heard a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot and dove into the kitchen for cover…”

The irony is that under a proposal introduced by Herbold, the suspect could avoid criminal charges if caught. Under the legislation, charges against most misdemeanor suspects could be dismissed if they can show symptoms of mental illness or addiction or if they can prove the crime provided for a need to survive, a so-called “poverty defense…”

Are There Anti-Semitic Tropes in Obama's Memoir?

PJ Media "Writing in The Australian, economist Henry Ergas noticed something in Obama’s memoir that has so far been ignored by the mainstream media. Or perhaps it was just never seen before because, really, how many people who bought Obama’s absurd book (which is only the first volume of his presidential memoirs) actually read the thing?

According to Ergas, “The silence that has greeted the former US president’s description of Nicolas Sarkozy in his book reflects the normalisation of casual anti-Semitism on the ‘progressive’ side of politics.”

" 'What did Obama say about Sarkozy?

The words leap out and grab you. Former President Barack Obama characterizes no other world leader in anything like the terms he reserves for former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

In his recent memoir, Obama tells us that Sarkozy is a “quarter Greek Jew.” Little wonder, then, that Sarkozy has “dark, expressive, Mediterranean features,” which resemble the exaggerated, often distorted figures “of a Toulouse-Lautrec painting.”

Little wonder, too, that he is “all emotional outbursts and overblown rhetoric,” while his conversation, which reflects unbridled ambition and incessant pushiness, “swoops from flattery to bluster to genuine insight.”

"Here’s the full passage in context..... 

Stable California, where 2/3 of it is on fire, 1/3 is homeless, and pissing in the street, but it is NOT at all destabilized…

 Media/Democrats Claim Recall Effort Against Tyrannical California Governor “An Attempt At Destabilizing California”  . . . "Battered by several crises, including the coronavirus pandemic, crippling unemployment, devastating wildfires and one very poorly timed fancy dinner, Newsom faces a recall effort that shows no signs of slowing.

"A petition to oust Newsom has more than half the signatures needed to trigger a special election, said Orrin Heatlie, who is leading the Recall Gavin 2020 campaign. Volunteers had collected 844,000 signatures by Tuesday, he said" . . .

Jimmy Kimmel Says Mike Pence Doesn’t Deserve Covid Vaccine: ‘Save That Dose For Someone Else’   .

. . “Speaking of cold, white stuff, Mike Pence is expected to get his first of two Pfizer shots tomorrow,” Jimmy Kimmel said his opening monologue on Thursday, tasing aim at Pence and his wife Karen’s decision to take the vaccine to prove it is safe. “I guess the thinking is, if it’s good enough for America’s First Karen, it should be good enough for the rest of them too. But this is exciting for Mike Pence. Getting vaccinated is the only time Mother ever does shots with him.' ” . . .  

Alec Baldwin Suggests Violent Punishments for Trump: ‘A Knee on His Neck, Cutting Off His Oxygen’

California’s Population Growth Rate Slumps as Residents Flee COVID and Taxes  . . . "Housing affordability is cited by many as a reason to flee the Golden State. The state’s median home price reached yet another record high this fall, hitting $712,000 in September.

“ 'I knew for sure I’m never going to own a home. So I talked to my girlfriend, and that was our defining moment,” software salesman Colin Jordan told The New York Times earlier this year about his reasons for moving out of the Bay Area. “I said: ‘I want to buy a house and start a life. Will you move with me?’”

"The couple now own a four-bedroom home in Arizona. And they’re far from the only California transplants that have taken up in the Sun Belt.   And while many consider leaving California because they’re struggling to get by or afford a place to live, others argue that they’re leaving the state to free themselves from tax bills they say have become burdensome.

A proposed “wealth tax” impacting those with net worths greater than $30 million appears to have spooked some super-wealthies, despite its failure to pass in the state

Kamala Harris Reminds Everyone She's the Queen of Cringe, Ben Shapiro Roasts

Kamala Harris Explains What Hanukkah Is; Ben Shapiro Reacts

 RedState  "Kamala Harris, or ‘Black Hillary’ as Redstater Jeff Charles calls her, has got to be the most cringe politician of the last decade, at least in so far as someone who has risen to the top levels of our government. To the extent that there’s a comparison, and there certainly is, she makes Hillary look charismatic.

"Almost as if to provide more evidence of this, the Biden transition team decided it’d be a good idea to ask Harris what Hanukkah is about on video, because being married to a secular Jewish man apparently qualifies her to do so. What follows is one of the most awkward videos you’ll see this.

"For example, did you know that Hanukkah is just about “light,” you know, because they light candles and stuff. Harris repeats that line several times in the beginning, almost as if she doesn’t know what else to say, likely because she doesn’t know what else to say.

"Ben Shapiro, an Orthodox Jew, took the video apart on his show late this week." . . .

Joseph Stalin Posthumously Identifies As Strong Woman Of Color To Deflect Criticism Of Socialist Policies

 Parody from the Babylon Bee

"HELL—In a statement offered to reporters during a 15-minute recess from hell, dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin announced he now identifies as a strong woman of color in order to deflect criticism away from his socialist policies that killed millions.

"I now identify as a strong woman of color, and a lot of men simply can't handle that," Stalin said, sassily snapping his fingers in a "Z" formation. "It drives them crazy to know that a strong woman of color such as myself can wield so much power." Stalin stated that white men simply feel threatened by his accomplishments and can't possibly have any legitimate criticisms of his policies, including a centralized economy that led to mass starvations, a brutal police state, genocide, and government control over every area of citizens' lives.

Millions of people quickly apologized to Stalin after the announcement was made.

"If we had known that Stalin was a strong POC, we wouldn't have distanced ourselves from his policies," said one moderate Democrat in New York. "It is always wrong to criticize a woman, especially a minority woman, no matter how repulsive her ideas and how many people's lives they would destroy."

Soros-funded DA George Gascon Apologizes to Murder Victim’s Family for Telling Them to ‘Keep Their Mouth Shut’

Other Soros-backed prosecutors include Chicago’s Kim Foxx, notorious for protecting Jussie Smollett; and Kim Gardner of St. Louis, who charged Patricia and Mark McCloskey with felonies for defending their property from a Black Lives Matter mob. She was recently removed from Patricia McCloskey’s case after using it to raise campaign funds.

 Breitbart

"Newly-installed Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has apologized to the family of murder victim Joshua Rodriguez for telling them to “keep their mouth shut” as they protested his appearance in Pomona, California on Friday.

"Video of the interaction, which was published by Bill Melugin of local Fox affiliate KTTV-11, shows Gascon saying: “It’s unfortunate that we have people who do not have enough education so they can keep their mouth shut for a moment so we can talk.”

"A woman’s voice, later identified as Rodriguez’s mother, is heard responding: “My son can never speak again because he was murdered — kidnapped, tortured, and murdered. My son matters.” She later shouted at him as he left.

"Joshua Rodriguez was murdered in 2015.

"Gascón was elected with the help of millions of dollars from left-wing billionaire George Soros, who has funded the election of left-wing prosecutors across the country. Since taking office earlier this month, he has begun implementing radical policies that have included ending cash bail, preventing prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, and removing some sentencing enhancements for crimes such as using a gun or belonging to a gang.

"One case involved a suspect charged with a double murder, including that of L.A. Sherrif’s Deputy Gilbert Solano." . . .

NEW: Under new D.A. George Gascon’s reforms, I’ve confirmed his office is trying to dismiss all enhancements & special circumstances against the alleged double murderer/cop killer accused of shooting LASD deputy Gilbert Solano in the back of his head. His sister is irate. @FOXLA pic.twitter.com/SxnPiOuRPG

— Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) December 15, 2020 

Overdose deaths far outpace COVID-19 deaths in San Francisco

Weasel Zippers

Yahoo  " A record 621 people died of drug overdoses in San Francisco so far this year, a staggering number that far outpaces the 173 deaths from COVID-19 the city has seen thus far.

"The crisis fueled by the powerful painkiller fentanyl could have been far worse if it wasn't for the nearly 3,000 times Narcan was used from January to the beginning of November to save someone from the brink of death, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Saturday.

"The data reflects the number of times people report using Narcan to the Drug Overdose Prevention and Education Project, a city-funded program that coordinates San Francisco’s response to overdose, or return to refill their supply. Officials at the DOPE Project said that since the numbers are self-reported, they are probably a major undercount.

"Last year, 441 people died of drug overdoses — a 70% increase from 2018 — and 2,610 potential overdoses were prevented by Narcan, a medication commonly sprayed up the nose to reverse an opioid overdose, according to data from the city Medical Examiner's office and the DOPE Project.

"The crisis is deepening because fentanyl, which can be 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, flooded the city's drug supply, the newspaper said. Moreover, the coronavirus pandemic has disrupted city services like housing and treatment, and left many people who rely on others to help save them if they overdose to use alone.

"While nearly 40% of the deaths occurred in the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods near downtown, city data showed the epidemic has touched every part of the city. Many people overdosed in low-income apartment buildings and in city-funded hotel rooms for the homeless. Others died on sidewalks, in alleyways and parks around the city." . . .

Are you pro-Israel? Then we'll pan your books on feminism

 Phyllis Chesler

Radical feminists swim in a sea where Linda Sarsour, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and AOC are heroes, Arab mysogyny is Israel's fault. Op-ed

. . . "I have been documenting the Palestinianization of Feminism and “Progressivism” for the last forty years. It has deeply saddened and enraged me. Radical feminists have gone along with GroupThink in a way that is frightening. It is a measure of how successful all the anti-Semitic/anti-Zionist campaigns have been—the non-stop anti-Israel resolutions at the UN, the non-stop BDS campaigns, the non-stop Arab funding of American universities, and all the non-stop petitions, letters, demonstrations, campus Apartheid weeks—which have had their way with the herd-like intelligentsia." . . .

. . . "For some time now, feminist organizations have presented programs and plenary sessions against the Israeli “occupation” of disputed territories. They cherish only those who hold such views. Most intersectional feminists swim in a sea in which Linda Sarsour, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex are glamorized and omnipresent and whose views on Israel are genocidal. (“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” which is code for: “And there will be no Israel.”) Tlaib just retweeted this refrain but it was quickly disappeared. Screen shots have captured it." . . .

Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D, is an Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies at City University of New York. Dr. Chesler is a co-founder of the Association for Women in Psychology (1969), The National Women's Health Network (1974), and The International Committee for the (Original) Women of the Wall (1989). She is a writing fellow at Middle East Forum and is a Fellow affiliated at both SPME and ISGAP. Dr. Chesler is the author of twenty books, including the landmark feminist classic Women and Madness, The New Anti-Semitism (2003), Woman's Inhumanity to Woman (2009), An American Bride in Kabul (2013), which won a National Jewish Book Award, A Family Conspiracy: Honor Killing (2018), a Memoir: A Politically Incorrect Feminist (2018), and her forthcoming Requiem for a Female Serial Killer (2020).

The Fight for the Soul of Seattle | A KOMO News Documentary

 “ 'The Fight for the Soul of Seattle” examines the role of Seattle’s City Council in allowing the situation to reach what many experts consider epidemic levels under the guise of a compassionate approach to people who suffer from substance addiction and who commit crimes to feed their habit.

"It documents the heartbreaking condition of people on the streets, and the crushing decisions Seattle entrepreneurs are forced to contemplate as their life savings and dreams are destroyed by theft, vandalism and a dwindling customer base. This documentary also explores potential bold solutions to treat those living on the streets and pair them with agencies and assistance that can provide a clear path away from the endless circle of addiction and crime. 00:03:20 - Seattle eBike store, Brian Nordwell 00:07:20 - Mark Sidran, Former Seattle City Attorney 00:12:16 - Scott Lindsey, Former Public Safety for Mayor Ed Murray 00:14:35 - Ginny Burton 00:17:30 - Tom Wolf 00:20:50 - Seattle PD difficult job 00:29:00 - CHOP, Lorenzo Anderson 00:32:00 - East precinct taken back 00:33:21 - Court house protection 00:37:00 - Former Judge Ed Mckenna 00:49:07 - Seattle City Council, defund police 00:52:20 - Business fighting for survival 00:58:00 - Mental health issues, support 01:06:28 - Drug and homeless epidemic reform 01:13:30 - Travis Berge, repeat offenders 01:20:00 - Kevan Carter Jr.'s mental illness 01:26:40 - What can be done? What's the plan?

Jill Biden’s Doctorate Is Garbage Because Her Dissertation Is Garbage

 National Review

"Her dissertation is not an addition to the sum total of human knowledge."

"You can tell someone is smarting from an inferiority complex when he insists on being addressed as “Dr.” on the basis of holding an academic doctorate rather than being a physician. Ph.D. holders who have genuine accomplishments don’t make you call them “Doctor,” which is why you never hear about “Dr. Paul Krugman” and “Dr. George Will.” None of the professors I knew at Yale, even the ones who were eminent in their fields, insisted on the title, and I think most of them would have scoffed if someone had addressed them as “Dr.” The only reason you ever hear the phrase “Dr. Henry Kissinger” is that Kissy grew up in title-mad, airs-and-graces Germany, where people are awed rather than dismissive even if you insist on a triple-serving title (“Herr Professor Doktor”).

"Insisting on being called “Doctor” when you don’t heal people is, among most holders of doctorates, seen as a gauche, silly, cringey ego trip. Consider “Dr.” Jill Biden, who doesn’t even hold a Ph.D. but rather a lesser Ed.D., something of a joke in the academic world. President-elect Joe Biden once explained that his wife sought the degree purely for status reasons: “She said, ‘I was so sick of the mail coming to Sen. and Mrs. Biden. I wanted to get mail addressed to Dr. and Sen. Biden.’ That’s the real reason she got her doctorate,” Joe Biden has said.

. . . Mrs. Biden until recently taught English composition at NoVa, a small community college in Northern Virginia. To justify addressing her as “Dr.” would require a generous view of what constitutes an “academic,” and judging by the writing skills evinced by her students (“She very bad teacher and it is hard to pass class. I RECOMMEND NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR”), they emerged from her tutelage lacking mastery of even very basic grammar. As for the contents of the dissertation, which she cobbled together from a few secondary sources and some vapid interviews and questionnaires she sent around at the campus where she worked before her husband became vice president, Delaware Technical Community College, I’ll go over them in detail in my next column.

 Tucker: The level of shilling for Biden is nauseating

Georgia on our mind

 Georgia's Senate candidates campaign with Farrakhan's man in Atlanta  "When people tell you who they are, believe them.  "Which brings us to Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, the two Georgia Senate candidates who claim to be Democrat Party 'moderates' in a bid to win Georgia's Jan. 5 runoff and effectively control the U.S. Senate. " . . .

. . . "That 'Marion' character at the bottom, is Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan's man in Atlanta, according to a report by Townhall's Bronson Stocking." . . .

"This isn't the doing of moderates, this is the alliance of rabid anti-Semites. Ossoff and Warnoff are revealing themselves for the extremist personalities they are, and it's quite possible that when word gets out, they will be politically goners.

"Atlanta's voters should let neither of them anywhere near the Senate. "

Never-Trump To 'Never-Republican': How 1 GOP Group Plans To Hand Georgia To Dems

Warnock

Surprise: Stacey Abrams SUSPECTED of Voter Fraud  . . . "Even though Democrats have been caught cheating in the presidential election, they show no signs of fear. Now let’s see how Raffensberger handles things going forward. Frankly, we are well past time for perp walks and imprisonment of these Leftist skank rats."

SUDHIN THANAWALA, Associated Press  In Georgia, Warnock brings faith and activism to the arena  "In 2008, when Barack Obama was under fire for a sermon his former pastor delivered years earlier, the aspiring president distanced himself from the preacher’s fiery words that channeled Black Americans’ anger over racism.

"The Rev. Raphael Warnock defended Jeremiah Wright. “When preachers tell the truth, very often it makes people uncomfortable,” he said on Fox News." . . .

What Happens to Israel When Democrats Are in the White House?

 Tevi Troy

A history and guide to the coming Biden years

. . . "Harry Truman himself, however, had some sympathy for the position that the Jews had a right to return to their ancestral homeland, and he was willing to put up with some internal strife to hear the other side of the argument. On May 12, 1948, Truman asked his aide Clark Clifford to make the case for recognizing Israel, with Marshall making the case against. Marshall went first and focused on the geostrategic elements of the situation, particularly the likelihood that the Arabs would defeat the outnumbered Israelis. Clifford, a skilled trial lawyer, then made his case—and Marshall could not contain his anger. His response was dismissive and ad hominem. “I don’t even know why Clifford is here,” Marshall complained. “He is a domestic adviser, and this is a foreign-policy matter. The only reason Clifford is here is that he is pressing a political consideration.”

"Truman lashed back: “Well, General, he’s here because I asked him to be.” Marshall then stretched the boundaries of appropriate behavior in a meeting with the president by threatening to vote against Truman if he sided with Clifford. Marshall’s shocking comment effectively ended the meeting. “Well, that was rough as a cob,” Truman said to Clifford.'Marshall lost the argument. The U.S. recognized Israel. According to Clifford, Marshall never spoke to him again and would not even mention Clifford’s name for the remaining 11 years of Marshall’s life. 

"Marshall lost the argument. The U.S. recognized Israel. According to Clifford, Marshall never spoke to him again and would not even mention Clifford’s name for the remaining 11 years of Marshall’s life." . . .

Tevi Troy is a presidential historian and former White House aide. He is the author of Fight House: Rivalries in the White House from Truman to Trump.

Praying for Peace In a Biden-Influenced Middle East   "There is hope that Joe Biden will pause before jettisoning policies that have advanced peace in the Middle East more effectively than anything since Camp David in 1978."

Georgia Dem’s anti-Israel sermon resurfaces amid Senate runoff race  ..."One pro-Israel activist slammed Warnock’s remarks as disturbing and full of lies.

“ 'It’s really vile. Don’t tell me he’s a friend of Israel,” said former Brooklyn Assemblyman Dov Hikind, founder of Americans Against Anti-semitism.

"Hikind critiqued the Warnock sermon on his group’s website while also showing clips of the violent protests in Gaza opposing the embassy move.

"He said he was baffled that the reverend would describe the US Embassy opening in Jerusalem as a “tough week.” . . .