Category: Goobermint

Two Minneapolis Best Buys Robbed On Black Friday As ‘Flash Mob’ Thievery Spreads Beyond California.

Flashback: Minneapolis Mayor Comes to Striking Conclusion That Defunding the Police Increased Crime.

As Crisis in Ethiopia Unfolds, Biden Admin Prepares for a Second Afghanistan.

As Ethiopia heads towards a potential collapse, the Biden administration worries the situation will turn into another Afghanistan, Axios reported.

The government of Ethiopia has called on its citizens to arm themselves as rebels make their way towards the capital, Addis Ababa, Axios reported. The rebels are reportedly from the Tigray region, where concerns have risen about ethnic cleansing and the use of starvation by the government as a tactic of war.

State Department officials have issued multiple advisories and held numerous briefings in an attempt to avoid a fallout similar to the evacuation from Afghanistan, Axios reported. Non-emergency staff was ordered to leave the country in early November, a move which the administration hopes will prevent the need for an airlift like the one required in Kabul.

“There are no plans to fly the U.S. military into Ethiopia to facilitate evacuations or replicate the contingency effort we recently undertook in Afghanistan, which was a unique situation for many reasons,” a senior State Department official told reporters in a briefing Monday.

“There should be no expectation, particularly after we have issued so many warnings that advise departing immediately, that the U.S. will be able to facilitate evacuations via military or commercial aircraft in a non-permissive environment, including Ethiopia,” the official added.

The chaos that unfolded as Afghanistan fell to the Taliban and the struggle the U.S. faced when attempting to withdraw Americans and allies from the country reportedly caused a wave of mental health issues in the State Department, Politico reported.

The Department of Veterans Affairs reportedly offered its 24-7 support line to help officials work through the strain of the situation, but the State Department turned down the offer, Politico reported. One State Department employee described this decision as “really disturbing” and “a disgrace.”

“The mental health ramifications of the Afghanistan evacuation are not over — we expect employees to potentially have adverse mental health in the months and years to come,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price said while commenting on the reporting, Politico reported.

A common thread in Waukesha tragedy, Kenosha shootings: Government failure.

When is a racial hate crime not a racial hate crime? When it doesn’t advance the left’s, and the Democrats’, narrative.

When white teenager Kyle Rittenhouse shot three white men who were violently assaulting him, it somehow got treated by the press and politicians as a racial hate crime. President Joe Biden (falsely) called Rittenhouse a white supremacist, and the discussion of his case was so focused on racial issues that many Americans mistakenly thought that the three men Rittenhouse shot were black.

But when a black man, Darrell Brooks, with a long history of posting hateful anti-white rhetoric on social media drove a car into a mostly white Christmas parade, killing six people and injuring dozens, the press was eager to wish the story away. (The New York Times buried it on page A22.) Even when a Black Lives Matter activist connected it to the Rittenhouse verdict, observing “it sounds like the revolution has started,” the media generally downplayed it.

Were the races reversed, of course, we all know that the press would be turning its coverage up to 11, with deep dives into Darrell Brooks’ associations, beliefs, friends and family and more. But doing that here wouldn’t fit the narrative.

In fact, though, there is a thread connecting the Rittenhouse shootings and the Waukesha mass murder. But the thread isn’t so much racism as awful Democratic politicians.

After police shot Jacob Blake in Kenosha, sparking unrest, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers (D) didn’t call up the National Guard and secure the streets. Instead, he sent out an inflammatory tweet, saying, “What we know for certain is that he is not the first Black man or person to have been shot or injured or mercilessly killed at the hands of individuals in law enforcement in our state or our country.”

What followed was a night of arson and rioting. Evers nonetheless sent only a trickle of National Guard over the next two days and declined federal assistance. The result was a huge amount of violence and property destruction (largely affecting the city’s working-class and poor neighborhoods) and a background of unrest that led Kyle Rittenhouse to try to guard businesses and help the injured — a teenager setting out to do what the government refused to do.

Likewise, the Waukesha mass murder was the result of government failure. Darrell Brooks had already been charged with deliberately running over his girlfriend at a gas station and, incredibly, had been released on a mere $1,000 bail. All told, Brooks had been charged with three felonies, plus resistance to arrest and bail jumping.

All that and only $1,000 bail?

But an opposition to cash bail is a cornerstone of Democrats’ criminal-justice policies. They’re not always wrong — there’s a real problem of poor people who can’t raise bail being held in jail for often trivial offenses. But Brooks wasn’t charged with trivial offenses. He was charged with violent, potentially murderous crime.

Then they let him go, and he committed a violent, actually murderous crime.

John Chisholm, the district attorney, has since admitted that the bail required was “inappropriately low.” Well, yes.

Chisholm, though, is a pioneer of the Democrats’ war on cash bail and a champion of what can only be called “inappropriately low” bail as a matter of policy. He’s been a leader among “progressive prosecutors” who have taken a lax approach to law enforcement in cities like San Francisco and New York. In a 2019 paper, he wrote, “When we pay too little attention to the underlying causes and characteristics of individuals in the criminal justice system, we make significant errors, which can lead to greater problems.”

Prosecutors, infected with progressive politics, paid too little attention to Brooks’ characteristics, an error that left six people dead and many more injured. Now Brooks is being held on $5 million bail.

Incredibly, however, just one day after the Waukesha mass murder, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Bx-Queens) demanded federal intervention against what she called “excessive bail.” Excessive bail can be a problem. But so is a revolving-door justice system that leaves the public at risk.

Both the Kenosha shootings and the Waukesha mass murder happened because the government failed to do its job. Those are the wages of progressive politics. For the likes of Evers, Chisholm and AOC, the wages are good. But the rest of us pay.

Well the voters of the left coast who elected the leftist politicians, sowed to the wind and they’re now reaping the whirlwind. A lesson to be learned from their painful, and expensive experience.

Abolitionist Philosophy Fuels Big City Violence On The West Coast

Beneath a trending avalanche of subterfuge and rhetoric, and shockwave after shockwave of violent uprisings deteriorate into chaos, the major population centers up and down the left coast are burning examples of misplaced empathy and cratering to special interests by elected officials resulting in Dystopia. Like a scene out of “A Clockwork Orange”, a swarm of ultraviolet clowns descended upon a swanky business district and feasted upon the spoils of a clothing store.

In the aftermath of a coordinated group of thugs crashing through the doors assaulting  employees, and leaving a trail of destruction in their wake at a Bay area Nordstrom retail outlet, the tiresome social experiment of failing to prosecute criminals is again rearing its ugly head, as a quarter century of prosecutors disguised as “abolitionists” exercising a soft stance on crime has finally reached a major tipping point. The dubious equation propagating a tediously dangerous environment for law-abiding citizens, includes the variables an overwhelming aversion to guns, the stigmatization of firearms owners as bigoted murders regardless of race, the defunding and ridicule of law enforcement, and the enablement of rioters incredulously referred to as “peaceful protestors”.

While Saturday night’s flash mob of violence and Viking style plundering did not fall under the pretense social justice, residents were exposed to a primetime preview of things to come, and in the fear-mongering milieu of a Covid-19 pandemic, the villainous league will become more daring, the extremists will temporarily seize chunks of real estate in proclaiming anarchy, while the depleted and beleaguered  police forces are ordered to stand down and act with forced compassion coursing through the bureaucratic channels.

The Nordstrom incident and the faux Summer of love CHAZ/CHOP perimeter of lawlessness allowed to fester in Seattle are bi-products of a complex and disheartening cavalcade of factors slathered in toxic ideology. However, the unwillingness of lawmakers, who cling to their apparent academic accomplishments, fail to grasp one of the fundamental concepts of effective leadership, the ability to process history and thus learn from the blatant mistakes. In the absence of basic logic, inane methodologies and philosophies are retrofitted from 100 years ago and the delusion that things somehow will turn out differently, is a symptom of ideological insanity, which does not excuse the tyrannical undertones of threatening basic liberties and freedoms through idealistic fantasies.

Amid the chaos and destruction of WWI, author and historian Robert Service describes in his book “Spies and Commissars- The History of the Russian Revolution”, how the jail system was liquidated, as the alleged leadership got caught in the trap of social harmony and loyalty warping the reality that certain individuals lack the capacity to function within the order of society. The subsequent disturbing parallel would fit the narrative of the contemporary decaying climate facilitated by apologists. “Levien and Levine were breathtakingly naive. Believing that common criminals were simply victims of the old imperial order, they released all convicts from prison. The subsequent wave of robberies and murders in Munich made it a terrible place to live. The economic emergency intensified as businesses shutdown.”

Unleashing aggressive and lethal people upon society in 1919 for the sake of politics can be swapped out for 2021, the only difference within the future shock era of the information age, is that a potential crises is allowed to emanate through the adoption of policy and indoctrination. The most nefarious and maddening element of the current political fabric radicalized by the bevy megalomaniacs who scoff at term limits, is the comprehensive understanding of the nuances, branding, and categorization of riots. As propaganda outlining “systemic racism” runs rampant, counter culture protesters are encouraged by extremist politicians to be a menacing force, and distract from the big picture pursuit of tearing down society for a complete rebuild with a foundation steeped in Socialism. These are the same herd of cretins who will exploit a mass shooting tragedy to forward an agenda, yet are indifferent to the daily rigors of an ascending crime rate.

What is egregiously frustrating is that certain elected officials and support staff are adept at the dynamics of mobs, and the layered snapshot of riot within a mob or vise versus facilitates an entire industry of political posturing. While strict mandates have passed through the legislature of the three states on the West coast, individuals are now banned from legally carrying firearms at public “protests”, while ironically there is no way to guarantee that the criminal element won’t be armed, and the corporate media falls right into line in spinning the script so that instigators of violence are pre-qualified for victim credit card of unrelenting sympathy. As if on-cue, the mainstream news outlets failed to emphasize that CHAZ/CHOP resulted in four murders, and that residents with the blocks surrendered to miscreants by the Seattle city council were prevented from emergency services as a result of the blockades.

Only exacerbating the intolerance for law and order, is gun retailers in San Francisco and Seattle shuttering and crossing the city borders to evade the heavy tax increases and restrictions. While tools for self-defense are demonized by the leadership, the commitment to pat criminals on the back and foster the homeless industrial complex in legalizing car camping has transformed the downtown corridors and neighborhoods into glaring warzones of paradise for felons and burglars in the pursuit of inflicting widespread havoc.

The only recourse in cities where citizens have yielded to the nobility of the elites, is to remain vigilant and keep informed of the legislative process. Thankfully, the legal system is yet to be tarnished by the anti-patriots, and battles can and will be won in the courtrooms still free from unhindered bias.

Your Next Car May Refuse To Start if It Thinks You’ve Had a Drink
Get ready to pay for new nanny-state technology and for bypassing the unwelcome intervention.

Warning lights and noises are a regular part of the driving experience in vehicles that increasingly nag us about tire pressure, seatbelts, and engine status. Sometimes the alerts are helpful, but a new round of innovations mandated by the infrastructure bill might disable our cars if built-in technology determines that we’re intoxicated—or if, as seems inevitable, it just goes haywire. The one guarantee is that we’ll have to pay for the added complexity as we’re forced to use nanny-state systems jointly developed by the auto industry and the federal government.

“Not later than 3 years after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall issue a final rule prescribing a Federal motor vehicle safety standard under section 30111 of title 49, United States Code, that requires passenger motor vehicles manufactured after the effective date of that standard to be equipped with advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology,” reads language buried in the massive and recently passed federal infrastructure bill.

The bill defines the technology as a system that can “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired” and “passively and accurately detect whether the blood alcohol concentration of a driver” is above 0.08 percent. If the system decides that a driver is being naughty, it will “prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if an impairment is detected.”

Certainly not coincidentally, the auto industry recently unveiled technology that would satisfy the requirements of the bill by basically building a breathalyzer into every car.

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