A red tsunami is brewing this November after San Francisco ousts some Leftists this week.
Another news story will disappear when the media finds out it goes against their narrative.
And Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, just proves he’s the typical Democrat.
A View of Things to Come
Democrats are not getting it and there are more signs that the November elections are going to be a red title wave. It also shows that we are winning the culture war to the point that even radical Democrats like Ilhan Omar are saying to pull in the reigns a little bit.
In San Francisco, the bastion of Conservativism (I’m being sarcastic), there was a recall election to get rid of some school board members. Parents were pissed off at the board up there because:
- Children haven’t been to school for a year and a half.
- The school districts budget still ballooned to $124 million.
- While out of school, the board worried about pushing Left wing ideology including Critical Race Theory, Critical Gender Theory, painting over an 80 year old mural about the life of George Washington and the renaming of 44 schools including ones named after George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
Democrats, of course, said this was a right wing attempt to get rid of Democrats…in San Francisco.
Well, the voters didn’t think so. A 100,000 voters voted and ousted:
- President Gabriela López
- Vice President Faauuga Moliga
- Commissioner Alison Collins
They all were pulled with a vote of about 70%.
Mayor London Breed, who is in trouble herself, gets to pick three new board members. By the way, her radical district attorney, Chesa Boudin is facing a recall election too and he looks like he’s going to get ousted.
We can take three things from this.
- Democrats are going to get shellacked in November.
- Parents are getting tired of the social justice crap. It’s getting in the way of their children’s education. We are seeing this throughout the country.
- Democratic policies suck. They don’t seem to be focused on what’s important. We can see this with the federal government. We are suffering high inflation, a stagnant economy, foreign policy problems, an open southern border and Joe Biden is tweeting about climate change. People don’t care about that.
- Republicans are beginning to win the culture war. That’s good because we have been sitting on the sideline for decades.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/san-francisco-education-school-board-recall-rick-hess
https://www.dailywire.com/news/revolt-against-progressive-agenda-san-francisco-voters-recall-three-school-board-members
https://www.foxnews.com/us/san-francisco-recalls-school-board-members-clear-message
The Story Is Already Gone
Do you know who Quintez Brown is? If you watch mainstream media news, I guarantee you don’t. He was arrested for attempting to assassinate a Kentucky mayoral candidate, Craig Greenberg. At first, the story was big because Greenberg is Jewish and the typical narrative was being pushed.
The Las Vegas Sun, before anything was known about Brown, stated:
While it’s been reported that the activist was involved in the Black Lives Matter and gun-safety movements and there has been no indication yet that he had ties to any right-wing organizations, the shooting comes amid a rise in threats against politicians fueled by increasingly violent rhetoric coming from extremist Republicans.
The New York Times documented this trend in a story last week based on a review of more than 75 indictments related to threats against lawmakers since 2016.
“In recent years, and particularly since the beginning of (Donald) Trump’s presidency, a growing number of Americans have taken ideological grievance and political outrage to a new level, lodging concrete threats of violence against members of Congress,” the newspaper wrote, adding that the threats “surged during Trump’s time in office and in its aftermath, as the former president’s own violent language fueled a mainstreaming of menacing political speech, and lawmakers used charged words and imagery to describe the stakes of the political moment.”
That’s right! It’s those evil Republicans and radical right-wing white supremacists and, of course, Donald Trump.
There’s just one problem. We learned something about the young Quintez Brown and the media has gone silent:
- A self-proclaimed racial justice activist working for “the total liberation and unification of Africa under scientific socialism”.
- An anti-gun activist.
- Was very well known in political circles.
- Was invited to the White House by Barrack Obama.
- Was interviewed by MSNBCs Joy Reid during the March for Our Lives anti-gun protest in Florida.
- Was an editor for the University of Louisville newspaper called The Cardinal.
- One of his articles called, The Revolutionary Love Letter was about how the system is dehumanizing people.
- He was a BLM activist.
- According to the Daily Beast, last week Brown met with a representative from “Lion of Judah,” a black nationalist militia group and appeared to encourage his followers on Instagram to join the group which believes that black people are the “chosen people” of God, not the Jews. The group has ties with the anti-semitic Black Hebrew Israelites.
Does this sound like a right wing, Trump supporter? Of course not. That’s why this story is not considered a story anymore. Just like the Christmas Parade Massacre in Waukesha, Wisconsin by another black supremacist and BLM supporter is no longer a story.
By the way, Brown $100,000 bail was posted by Black Lives Matter. I hope Greenberg carries a gun.
Here’s the thing that drives me crazy about the media. They keep screaming that white supremacy is the biggest problem in this country. That’s just not true. There are three reasons for this:
- White people just don’t think like that.
- There aren’t that many white supremacists in the country. Have you ever met one? I haven’t.
- White supremacy has not systemic support.
Black Lives Matter, on the other hand, has loads of followers and huge systemic support and they are a socialist, black supremacist group.
- They received $90 million in donations, most from corporate interests.
- Social media never bans them, no matter their rhetoric.
- They’re celebrated by the media.
- The violence they encourage is dismissed or excused by the media. Some celebrate it.
The kicker is, people, including BLM supporters, are beginning to see this and have second thoughts.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fund-created-by-blm-louisville-posts-bail-for-man-accused-of-shooting-at-mayoral-candidate
https://www.dailywire.com/news/alleged-louisville-shooter-recently-met-with-black-nationalist-group-praised-violent-radicals-on-social-media-report
https://www.thedailybeast.com/quintez-brown-of-louisville-alleged-craig-greenberg-wannabe-assassin-started-as-promising-activist?ref=scroll
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/quintez-brown-blm-louisville-bail-fund-shooting-suspect
https://www.foxnews.com/media/las-vegas-sun-hlm-activist-charged-shooting-mayoral-candidate-ties-extremist-republicans
He Lied To You
Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, is showing that he is no different than any other Democrat mayor even though he promised to bring the city together and solve the crime problem is he was elected.
A little background on this. Adams went to Albany to try to get the state to get rid of bail reform. Basically he wanted to capture bad guys and keep them in jail. Of course, New York is a Leftist state that loves letting criminals out of jail so his trip didn’t work out very well.
Of course, the New York media tore into him for failing to get any policies changed. In frustration, Adams decided to go off on the media in the typical Democrat way:
No, no, no. A very bad look.
Listen, I like what he tried to do. I know he’s frustrated because his Leftist state won’t cooperate with him. And I know the media can be brutal. But this is not the way to do it. He cannot make himself a victim because someone in the media put up a headline he doesn’t like. And blaming racism is not going to bring anyone together and it’s not going to give him any sympathy. The media is treating him like a politician, not a black man.
I was glad this guy became mayor. He’s a moderate Democrat and a former cop. And he’s not Bill DeBlasio. He has good ideas. The right seem to like him. But I am only cautiously optimistic. He’s still a Democrat. And this little temper tantrum just shows that. I hope he does well, for New York City’s sake. It’s a great city. But if he’s going to blame race every time he doesn’t get his way, he’s not going to do crap for that city.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/sit-down-and-take-some-questions-harris-faulkner-unloads-on-cowardly-nyc-mayor-adams-for-playing-the-race-card
https://nypost.com/2022/02/15/mayor-eric-adams-claims-white-journalists-misrepresent-him/
Does This Sound Familiar?
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) released an article called Why the word ‘freedom’ is such a useful rallying cry for protesters by Jason Vermes.
As demonstrations against COVID-19 restrictions continue across Canada, the word freedom is on the lips and placards of many protesters.
Often associated with protests and rallies in the United States, the term has taken hold among protesters who are part of the Freedom Convoy, which rolled into Ottawa in late January and has become entrenched in the city’s downtown.
For many, freedom is a malleable term — one that’s open to interpretation.
Further down in the article:
That flexibility, in part, has fuelled its growth among certain groups, said Barbara Perry, director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at the Oshawa-based Ontario Tech University.
“It is a term that has resonated…. You can define it and understand it and sort of manipulate it in a way that makes sense to you and is useful to you, depending on your perspective,” she told Cross Country Checkup.
It’s also a term that has thrived among far-right groups, said Perry, one of a number of experts who say the presence of far-right groups in Canada is growing.
Further:
As seen among some protesters currently opposing vaccine mandates and other public health measures, freedom signals a desire for freedom from government intervention or overreach, Perry noted.
“I think it resonates very much with what we’ve been seeing — and maybe takes some inspiration from what we’ve been seeing — in the U.S. over the last year and a half or so, leading up to the last election and events of Jan. 6,” she said, referring to the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Further down in the article:
To see the word freedom bandied about as part of these protests points to a broader circulation of what Elisabeth Anker calls “violent” forms of freedom.
“Freedom is a slippery concept,” said Anker, an associate professor of political science at George Washington University and author of Ugly Freedoms, which examines the history of how freedom, as a concept, has been used in American society.
“On the far right, [individual freedom] is often translated into somebody who refuses to be bound by norms of equality, treating all people equally or norms to remedy inequality, whether that’s trying to remedy racial discrimination or gender discrimination.”
In the final section:
Anker says the concept of freedom as displayed in the anti-mandate protests is something more often attributed to the United States. “Freedom is often used almost as a national entitlement, as a claim for what people have,” she said.
While some in the U.S. may see mask mandates as a violation of individual rights, for example, citizens in many other countries wouldn’t consider such rules to be an intrusion.
In those places — and in Canada — it’s likely there’s a general consensus that wearing masks is for the benefit of society’s most vulnerable.
But even in Canada, some protesters have balked at the idea, claiming the need for freedom.
“It’s been taking a lot of people by surprise to see people in Canada, who often seem so much more accepting of social interdependence, to start pushing back against it with the language of individual freedom,” said Anker.
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/checkup/what-s-your-reaction-to-the-ottawa-standoff-and-the-border-blockades-1.6349636/why-the-word-freedom-is-such-a-useful-rallying-cry-for-protesters-1.6349865
How About This One
Here is an opinion piece called When “Freedom” Means the Right to Destroy by Paul Krugman. I can’t believe this guy won a Nobel prize.
On Sunday the Canadian police finally cleared away anti-vaccine demonstrators who had been blocking the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, a key commercial route that normally carries more than $300 million a day in international trade. Other bridges are still closed, and part of Ottawa, the Canadian capital, is still occupied.
The diffidence of Canadian authorities in the face of these disruptions has been startling to American eyes. Also startling, although not actually surprising, has been the embrace of economic vandalism and intimidation by much of the U.S. right — especially by people who ranted against demonstrations in favor of racial justice. What we’re getting here is an object lesson in what some people really mean when they talk about “law and order.”
Some things:
- 90% of the truckers are vaccinated. They are hardly against vaccines.
- I also want to point out that he never says anything about why they are protesting.
- So, civil disobedience is economic vandalism? That’s because there wasn’t any…you know…actual vandalism.
- What about the burning down of a federal courthouse during the BLM protests. Wasn’t this actually vandalism?
- He’s pushing Trudeau’s narrative that this is because the United States Nazis are encouraging this mess the Canadian government created.
- Again, he doesn’t say what the protests are about.
Continuing:
Let’s talk about what has been happening in Canada and why I call it vandalism.
The “Freedom Convoy” has been marketed as a backlash by truckers angry about Covid-19 vaccination mandates. In reality, there don’t seem to have been many truckers among the protesters at the bridge (about 90 percent of Canadian truckers are vaccinated). Last week a Bloomberg reporter saw only three semis among the vehicles blocking the Ambassador Bridge, which were mainly pickup trucks and private cars; photos taken Saturday also show very few commercial trucks.
The Teamsters union, which represents many truckers on both sides of the border, has denounced the blockade.
Some things:
- The vaccine mandates are half the story.
- The truckers were considered essentials workers for two years. They did not qualify for any government assistance and had to keep working.
- At the stroke of a pen in November, Trudeau said they weren’t essential anymore and the truckers had to be vaccinated. And carry vaccine cards.
- That’s when the protest started.
- By the way, they did that in this country with our healthcare workers and we were to much of cowards to fight that.
- Krugman decided to skip that fact.
- The Teamsters are not pro-trucker. It’s a Leftist political group and has been for decades. They do not represent the truckers.
Here’s more:
So this isn’t a grass-roots trucker uprising. It’s more like a slow-motion Jan. 6, a disruption caused by a relatively small number of activists, many of them right-wing extremists. At their peak, the demonstrations in Ottawa reportedly involved only around 8,000 people, while numbers at other locations have been much smaller.
- Right-wing extremists? Prove it. He doesn’t.
- And he returns to the same tired January 6th thing. If someone does something the Left doesn’t like it’s January 6th.
- You know what wasn’t January 6th? The BLM riots.
- The numbers aren’t right. We have pictures. There are tens of thousands of people supporting this.
Despite their lack of numbers, however, the protesters have been inflicting a remarkable amount of economic damage. The U.S. and Canadian economies are very closely integrated. In particular, North American manufacturing, especially but not only in the auto industry, relies on a constant flow of parts between factories on both sides of the border. As a result, the disruption of that flow has hobbled industry, forcing production cuts and even factory shutdowns.
Probably the first true thing he’s said.
The closure of the Ambassador Bridge also imposed large indirect costs, as trucks were diverted to roundabout routes and forced to wait in long lines at alternative bridges.
Any attempt to put a number on the economic costs of the blockade is tricky and speculative. However, it’s not hard to come up with numbers like $300 million or more per day; combine that with the disruption of Ottawa, and the “trucker” protests may already have inflicted a couple of billion dollars in economic damage.
That’s an interesting number, because it’s roughly comparable to insurance industry estimates of total losses associated with the Black Lives Matter protests that followed the killing of George Floyd — protests that seem to have involved more than 15 million people.
Some things:
- That $300 million a day is a guess and assumes no other product producing disruption.
- The BLM protest did more than $5 billion in damage, shut businesses down permanently, and killed hundreds of people. Not comparable.
Here’s more:
This comparison will no doubt surprise those who get their news from right-wing media, which portrayed B.L.M. as an orgy of arson and looting. I still receive mail from people who believe that much of New York City was reduced to smoking rubble. In fact, the demonstrations were remarkably nonviolent; vandalism happened in a few cases, but it was relatively rare, and the damage was small considering the huge size of the protests.
This guy’s incredible. The BLM riot was an “orgy of arson and looting”. Because the mainstream media didn’t cover it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
By contrast, causing economic damage was and is what the Canadian protests are all about — because blocking essential flows of goods, threatening people’s livelihoods, is every bit as destructive as smashing a store window. And unlike, say, a strike aimed at a particular company, this damage fell indiscriminately on anyone who had the misfortune to rely on unobstructed trade.
And to what end? The B.L.M. demonstrations were a reaction to police killings of innocent people; what’s going on in Canada is, on its face, about rejecting public health measures intended to save lives. Of course, even that is mainly an excuse: What it’s really about is an attempt to exploit pandemic weariness to boost the usual culture-war agenda.
Some things:
- You know what was blocking essential goods, threatening people’s livelihoods and was destructive more than the trucker protest? The BLM riots.
- And they were riots, not demonstrations. The Freedom Convoy is a demonstration.
- The BLM riots were not about the killing of innocent black people by police. George Floyd, by the way, was not innocent.
- The BLM riots wanted to change the system into a communist dystopia.
- S far as the culture war, it’s about time we get into the fray. We have let the Left own the culture war for decades.
More:
As you might expect, the U.S. right is loving it. People who portrayed peaceful protests against police killings as an existential threat are delighted by the spectacle of right-wing activists breaking the law and destroying wealth. Fox News has devoted many hours to fawning coverage of the blockades and occupations. Senator Rand Paul, who called B.L.M. activists a “crazed mob,” called for Canada-style protests to “clog up cities” in the United States, specifically saying that he hoped to see truckers disrupt the Super Bowl (they didn’t).
I assume that the reopening of the Ambassador Bridge is the beginning of a broader crackdown on destructive protests. But I hope we won’t forget this moment — and in particular that we remember it the next time a politician or media figure talks about “law and order.”
Recent events have confirmed what many suspected: The right is perfectly fine, indeed enthusiastic, about illegal actions and disorder as long as they serve right-wing ends.
.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/14/opinion/canada-protests-black-lives-matter.html
