In violation of leftist dogma, California Governor Newsome says that men can’t get pregnant.
The left can’t even keep their own bullshit straight.
economics
Inflation
Citrus County, Florida median home price was $195k in February of 2021. In March of 2022, that had risen to $280k. A 44 percent increase in 13 months. That makes the 30% increase in rent prices seem tame.
Thanks, Brandon.
Crime
Looks Like Cops Got This One Right
Four men, aged 18 to 20, decided to cover the license plate on their car and enter a target in Kissimmee, FL in order to steal pizzas and Pokemon cards from the store. Security called the local gendarmes, who arrived and attempted to take the young men into custody. For some reason, the police perceived a threat and opened fire, killing one and injuring one of them.
The police are having to keep silent until the Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE), who investigates all police shootings, completes its investigation. Their attorneys have been all over Central Florida news, claiming that the police overreacted and shot the men for no reason at all. The local press has been eating it up.
One of the claims that the lawyers are making is that the police never identified themselves as cops. At the same time, they are also claiming that the cops shot the men, even though they had raised their hands in surrender. The usual claims of racism aren’t available to them, because the deputies involved were the same race as the critters who were shot.
If you have read this blog any amount of time, you know that I don’t always side with the cops. Sometimes, I agree with what they do, sometimes, I don’t. This case is one of the former, in my opinion.
One question that has been raised throws cold water on the attorney’s claims: If the cops didn’t identify themselves, then why did the criminals raise their hands in surrender?
Those young men weren’t choirboys. They went there with the intent of stealing, as evidenced by their covering of the license plate with tape. Their records indicate some of who these men were/are:
- Jayden Baez, the man killed: He had a felony conviction from a 2019 case where he reached into his ex-gf’s car and struck her new beau and then stole some items, including airpods and a box of candy. That case was charged as burglary with battery, a felony. He pled guilty to misdemeanor battery. He also had a second arrest stemming from attempted escape from an Osceola Deputy who had arrested him on a warrant. The charges on that one were dropped. I didn’t attempt to find out what the warrant was for.
- Joseph Lowe, who is the 19 year old that was also shot, has an extensive juvenile offender record. I can’t see the specifics, but a 2018 arrest on driving a stolen Escalade lists him as a “juvenile felony offender with violent tendencies” (pdf warning)
On top of it, Nejame (the attorney) is well known in the area as being the lawyer who represented Casey Anthony, the woman who got a 13th trimester abortion. He represents the criminal element of Central Florida.
Uncategorized
Horse Pills
Remember when the left mocked those taking Ivermectin because it was a “horse dewormer?” Now they are pushing horse pills as a DIY chemical abortion.
Crime
The Crazy Years
A 14 year old boy and his unnamed accomplice in Long Island committed a burglary where the female homeowner and her small child were home. The woman and her child hid in a closet until discovered by the burglars, who then raped and then stabbed her in the chest before she was able to escape.
We hear all of the time from the left that we should just let the burglars take what they want, because our stuff is insured or because all they want is to feed their children. But what if what the thief that has just broken into your house wants to rape you, stab you, and then leave you for dead so that your small child is an orphan, or worse, is killed too? Will insurance fix that? Is that just stuff? Is the burglar just trying to feed his family? How can you tell the difference before it is too late?
This is why anyone who breaks into my home had better surrender immediately, because whether he knows it or not, he just arrived at the place and time of a very short and violent gunfight.
Fucking animals.
Purge opposition
Insurrection
When leftist protesters breach the fence around SCOTUS during their protests over abortion, will we see 30,000 armed troops deployed? Will those breaching the fence be called insurrectionists? Will they be held without bail for over a year, awaiting a trial that never seems to come? Will it be called a “threat to our Democracy?” Will they be charged with intent to impede or disrupt the orderly conduct of Government business?
I think we all know the answers.
Police State
Poor Tactics
A SWAT team driving around in an unmarked van was taking random potshots at people on the street with rubber bullets.
Someone fires a shot or two in return, then immediately surrenders when he sees that they are cops. The cops swarm him.
It turns out that the group of people that the cops were shooting at were the business owner and some employees who were protecting the business from looters.
For over an hour, those cops had been driving around, randomly shooting at pedestrians they saw on the street. In the officer’s bodycam footage, officers armed with less-lethal launchers can be seen crowded in an unmarked, white cargo van. The van was equipped with police lights but the officers didn’t use them. As cops can be heard explaining, the van was the lead vehicle in a caravan of other, marked cars, and the cops wanted to use that stealth to their advantage. At one point an officer in the van asks for the trailing patrol cars to stay far behind “so we can… utilize 40s.”
Advance to 41 seconds. The man had already surrendered when the cops came up and began kicking, punching him, and slamming his head into the pavement. They fractured his eye socket. The officer doing the beating, Officer Stetson, wrote in his report that he struck Stallings to gain control of him, even though he was flat on the ground and not moving, and claimed Stallings wasn’t complying. The video shows that to be a lie.
The man, Jaleel Stallings, was charged with eight felonies, including attempted second degree murder of a LEO and first degree assault. Despite the large amounts of mitigating video evidence in the case, the charging attorney still wanted to throw the book at him, asking him to plead guilty to counts carrying 13 years in prison. Instead, he demanded a jury trial and was acquitted of all charges by the jury. He used self defense as his defense, and it worked.
His lawyer has since released the video showing that the cops went hunting that night. They even planned it out, and all of it was caught on their bodycams.
Discussing it while driving around, one supervisor said, “We’re going hunting. Fuck these people.”
During their “patrol” their bodycams even revealed them slashing people’s tires:
One of the officers admitted in court during the trial: “We went out that evening and concealed our presence so people wouldn’t flee and we’d be able to get close enough to shoot them… and we were actually having fun shooting them”
This behavior is indefensible. The cops here were just plain wrong, and were worse than the rioters that were burning the city.
I count no fewer than ten cops in a relatively small box. They are either engaged in beating up and cuffing the one suspect, or milling around while not really paying attention to their surroundings.
These are the actions of people who don’t really think that there is a threat.
Now imagine that the people they are abusing are mad enough to fight back. Imagine that the people who are fighting back have some military experience.
For those of you familiar with ambushes: What could a four man fire support element do if they were in an overwatch position 100 yards or so away and this was a planned ambush? How hard would it be to lure police into a kill box and then overwhelm them with large amounts of fire before disengaging and disappearing before the cops could organize an effective counter?
The police need to be very careful to stop treating the citizens they are sworn to protect as if they were the enemy, because the citizens might just eventually begin acting like it.
Power Grab
Something To Ponder
Communications between Donald Trump and his staff were being electronically monitored both while he was a candidate and while he was President. They probably are still being monitored. It doesn’t matter that the monitoring was incidental, it was happening.
At any rate, all of this has been going on while Trump was under Secret Service protection. With that in mind, there are only two possibilities:
The Secret Service was aware of the monitoring and allowed it to happen, or:
The Secret Service never detected the intrusion, interception, and monitoring of some of the most secret and supposedly guarded communications in the entire nation. If someone could read White House communications without the knowledge of the Secret Service before passing that information to Hillary, then any other nation (or even large company) with sufficient money and technology could do so as well.
So which is it: Is the Secret Service untrustworthy, or incompetent? In either case, they are wholly incapable of protecting the White House. The even more interesting question is who was behind it? Was it Hillary? Obama? Someone else?
Answer that question, and you will also know who is now calling the shots.
Rigging the vote
’24 Election: Stage Being Set
Remember my post from yesterday? The one where I told you that the left was accusing Republicans of plotting to overthrow the government, even though it was the Democrats that did so? In that post, I made the claim that things would get so bad as to seem surreal.
I am right again. The latest is that a retired Federal judge (a Bush appointee) claims that 2020 was a dry run for Trump and other Republicans to shift the 2024 election in their favor, regardless of the actual results. The judge claims:
January 6 was never about a stolen election or even about actual voting fraud. It was always and only about an election that Trump lost fair and square, under legislatively promulgated election rules in a handful of swing states that he and other Republicans contend were unlawfully changed by state election officials and state courts to expand the right and opportunity to vote, largely in response to the Covid pandemic.
He goes on to claim that “Republicans have grown increasingly wary of the Electoral College with the new census and political demographics of the nation’s shifting population.”
That is complete and utter horseshit. This very blog has documented the Democrats’ efforts to get rid of the Electoral College since 2016. In fact, just a few weeks before the 2020 election, CNN was campaigning for packing SCOTUS to eliminate the Electoral College.
You’re going to have to get rid of the Electoral College, because the people — because the minority in this country decides who the judges are and they decide who the president is. Is that — is that fair?” Lemon said.
Cuomo responded by noting a constitutional amendment — which requires two-thirds approval from Congress and three-fourths approval from states — is required to eliminate the Electoral College.
Lemon shot back, “If Democrats, if Joe Biden wins, Democrats can stack the courts and they can do that amendment and they can get it passed.”
No, it isn’t about the Electoral college. It isn’t about 2020. This is about power. It’s about twisting and rewriting the past to hide the Democrat’s obvious shenanigans in the 2020 election. It’s about suppressing the Republican vote in the 2024 election. The left is laying the groundwork for the elimination of any real choice in the 2024 election.