The Left tries to pin another story on “white supremacists” but it turns into a fail…again.
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And Leftist mayors just don’t get it and people are getting tired of their BS.
Oops, Wrong Again!
The media and the Leftist politicians aren’t getting it. In the fact they are losing a lot of credibility. Their narratives have clouded their judgment so much that they refuse to come to terms that no one is believing them anymore. Here is another example.
In Wilton Manors, Florida, during a gay pride parade. During the parade, a truck accelerated and hit a crowd of parade goers. One was killed and one was injured. Moments after the tragedy, the Fort Lauderdale Mayor, Dean Trantalis, who was at the parade, made the following statement to a local news outlet:
“This is a terrorist attack against the LGBT community. This is exactly what it is. Hardly an accident. It was deliberate, it was premeditated, and it was targeted against a specific person. Luckily they missed that person, but unfortunately, they hit two other people.”
It took a little time later that Trantalis’ announcement burned through social media, specifically Twitter. The Twitter user started blaming Ron DeSantis. The Leftists pointed out that DeSantis had approved a bill that would not make it against the law to run over protestors in their cars if they feared for their lives. They argued that this incident is proof that his laws were meant to threaten peaceful protest with violent, white extremists. The hash tag #DeathSantis was trending for hours.
There are a few things wrong with this.
- The law was designed for people who are being threatened by rioters to be able to defend themselves, not go out and, willy-nilly, run over peaceful protestors.
- Even if that is what the law meant, this was not a protest. It was a pride parade. The law wouldn’t have applied here.
- Ron DeSantis didn’t drive the car into anyone!
But there was another big detail that I have failed to bring up: The whole thing was determined to be an accident!
That’s right, an accident.
The man in the truck jumped out of the truck, distressed, yelling that he stepped on the wrong peddle and it was an accident. He never ran away and did not continue his “terrorism carnage”. The man driving the truck was wearing a Fort Lauderdale Gay men’s Chorus t-shirt, and the chorus’ president, Justin Knight, said the driver was “part of the Chorus family.” Knight released a statement:
“Our thoughts and prayers are with those affected by the tragic accident that occurred when the Stonewall Pride Parade was just getting started. Our fellow Chorus members were those injured and the driver was also a part of the Chorus family. To my knowledge, this was not an attack on the LGBTQ community. We anticipate more details to follow and ask for the community’s love and support.”
Oops.
Twitter never fact checked those who participated in the #DeathSantis trend, didn’t take it down when it was found it wasn’t terrorism and never apologized to Ron DeSantis.
Keep it up, Leftists. You’re digging your own graves.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-left-rush-to-claim-pride-parade-death-as-a-homophobic-terrorist-attack-it-was-an-accident-by-another-participant
More Examples
The Left continues to destroy their own cities and then push the narratives that something else besides their crappy policies is destroying their cities and lowering the standards of living for their citizens. People are getting sick of it. How do we know? People are leaving their cities and their states.
This Gal Is Nuts
Lori Lightfoot is incompetent, narcissistic and just nuts.
Last week, in addressing the rising level in violence in Chicago, she said:
“When we think about racism, many of us think about it in visible and audible forms, but the reality is the insidious nature of systemic racism has other impacts that are every bit as deep and harmful, but often ones that we can’t see, like the impacts on the psyche and other impacts on our bodies that are just as, if not more deadly.”
Yeah, no.
And Alderman Raymond Lopez, of Chicago’s 15th Ward, agrees with me. He is a Democrat who has had a tough relationship with Lightfoot. He has been on Fox News frequently bitching about Lightfoot’s “leadership”. I want to point this out because It is important. Lopez is a liberal Democrat. He’s not a Leftist. This is the classical Democrat I miss. He said of Lightfoot’s leadership to the Washington Examiner:
“Generational gang life isn’t just something that’s encouraged. It’s almost revered in some neighborhoods. If you really want to get to what is at the heart of a lot of this, it is gangs, and it is the borderline collapse of the family unit in many of our neighborhoods … [Lightfoot] has avoided calling out gangs in our community as a source of violence in our city.”
He pointed out that residents have stopped calling the police because the police are not allowed to do anything about it. He was the guy who brought this up in a secretly recorded meeting and Lightfoot told him he was full of shit. Put quote around that because that is exactly what she told him.
He continued:
“I think it’s a foil to avoid having to deal with [gang and other issues], period. Two hundred-plus murders in the city of Chicago, none of them were committed because of racism. I can tell you last week’s gang shooting had nothing to do with racism. The shooting in Englewood Monday morning, four people shot, three others injured, was not about racism.”
Here’s the story: Lightfoot doesn’t care.
It was another violent weekend in Chicago. This include a shooting that left one man dead and his girlfriend in critical condition and it was all recorded. She has yet to address this but she did have the time to address the desire for the Chicago Bears football team to move out of the city and move into the suburbs.
Yeah, she has her priorities straight.
It’s not Just Chicago
Atlanta is also facing a huge criminal violence problem. In Atlanta, murders are up 50% and car jackings are up 76%.When asked about it, Kiesha Lance Bottoms, the Leftist mayor said this:
“Remember in Georgia we were opened up before the rest of the country, even before the CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] said that it was safe for us to open so our night clubs and our bars remained open so we had people traveling here from across the country to party in our city,.
“COVID left a lot of people battered and bruised, not just physically but also emotionally.”
Got that? It’s Republican’s fault because the pandemic is all but over but people have problems because of the lockdowns.
Question: Why aren’t Florida, Texas, Alaska, North and South Dakota, Montana and Idaho facing a crime issue? They have been open for quite a while.
Another question: Whit are New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Atlanta, Washington DC, San Francisco and Seattle experiencing huge growth in crime? Those cities are still locked down until just recently.
But it gets better. She said:
“Until we deal with the systemic issues of gun violence in this country, how easily young people, people with mental illnesses can access guns in this country, I’m afraid that this will not be the last summer that we are having this conversation.
“If it were an Atlanta issue alone then I’d know that there was something that we weren’t getting right… but I’m talking to mayors and hearing from mayors in cities and large urban areas, we’re all experiencing this which means that we all have to work together to find a solution to this gun violence that is gripping our nation.”
Oh, so it’s also the lack of gun control that is the reason of spiking criminal violence and it is prevelent throughout all big cities. In other words, it’s Republican’s fault again because Republicans believe citizens have the right to be able to protect themselves by owning a gun. Interesting.
Questions: Why are cities in red states, which do have really lax gun laws not see a spike in gun violence? And are the laws really that lax in those cities? They still have to go through city, state and federal laws including background checks.
Another question: Why are cities with the most restrictive gun control laws in the country are seeing the huge spikes in crime? Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles and San Francisco make it legally impossible to own a gun or get ammo. Why is Boise, Idaho, which has open carry, not have a gun violence problem?
Could it be that criminals, who don’t care about gun control laws, are afraid they will run into someone who has a gun to protect himself against people like him?
One last question: Could telling people they will never get ahead because of their race lead to crime by those individuals? Could spending the last year demonizing and defunding the police who are paid to catch those criminals so that they quit or don’t do their jobs have something to do with it? Could catching a criminal who committed a violent crime and then releasing him hours later have something to do with it? Could not prosecuting violent criminals and letting them free to go have something to do with it?
Conclusion
These Leftist leaders, sitting in their ivory and heavily protected towers, are tone deaf and just don’t care about anything but their narrative.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/chicago-alderman-says-gangs-are-responsible-for-chicago-problems-not-racism-as-mayor-lori-lightfoot-claimed
https://nypost.com/2021/06/16/email-shows-chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-dressing-down-staffer/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-silent-on-video-murder-after-addressing-bears-leaving-town/ar-AALgaFd?ocid=winp1taskbar
https://www.dailywire.com/news/atlanta-mayor-says-lifting-of-restrictions-contributed-to-citys-soaring-crime-rate
The Left’s Real Independence Day
Evanston, an affluent suburb in Illinois decided to cancel their 4th of July festivities due to the China virus. One has to think this was a bit of an over reaction considering the virus was was already on the downslide in United States.
The city said in a statement:
Based on concern for public health due to the unpredictability of the pandemic’s impact, vaccination rates, and in cooperation with our local authorities, the Trustees of the Evanston Fourth of July Association voted to cancel the Fun Run, Parade, Palatine Concert Band performance and Lakefront Fireworks show on July 4, 2021. However, we are committed and already working toward an Independence Day celebration that will be safe, creative and build community.
Monthly podcasts began in late 2019 titled “Celebrating a Century –The 4th of July in Evanston which will continue and can be heard on your personal devices. If guidelines allow, the Association plans to conduct the traditional morning games and activities in the parks and schools. The 2020 Virtual 4th of July celebration with a parade, concert and fireworks is ready to be replayed. The Celebration Team is considering mini concerts, roving entertainment, neighborhood art and decoration projects to provide the community with a day to remember.
Wow! Podcasts, a virtual celebration with music and roving entertainment? Replays of firework displays? Who the Hell need Independence Day? We could celebrate like this every day!
Well, it’s been three months and the city has not reinstated the July 4th celebrations. The vaccination rates for the town is at 87%. The infection and death rates are practically zilch throughout the country.
When asked about this, the Independence Day organizer, Jamie Black said:
The city’s Fourth of July Association “made the decision in March based on the information that we had at that time.”
“There are deadlines for permits and to secure the fireworks, as well as taking applications for the parade that happen early in the year. We erred on the side of caution. If things weren’t better, we would have been criticized for being a super spreader event.”
OK, fine. The city is playing it safe against a moderately dangerous virus. Or are they?
Nope.
This weekend, the city held a Juneteenth celebration which included music, a parade, food and a fireworks display. It was organized by a Evanston Past and Future, a group that promotes black history.
Next weekend, Evanston will host a gay pride event. The Independence Day festivities for July 4th have still not been reinstituted.
Seem like the China virus isn’t a problem with those and those groups didn’t have issues getting permits.
The Bigger Issue
I am glad that Juneteenth is an official holiday. I wish It was in December and it would be called “Emancipation Day” or something like that. Something that celebrates the actual Emancipation Proclamation signed into law by Abraham Lincoln, not a day that happened two years after the law was enacted and after the Civil War. A war that killed 700,000 people, mostly white, to end slavery and keep the country together.
But Juneteenth is being pushed, not as a national holiday that should unify the country like Columbus Day, July 4th and Thanksgiving. It is being coined as the Black Independence Day. I believe the day was chosen because Lincoln can’t be involved because he was white and this would go against the new narrative that he was a closet racist. They can’t celebrate it on the day the Civil War ended, making the Emancipation Proclamation law throughout the entire country because the 700,000 who died were mostly white and that would make ending slavery a country wide struggle, not just a black person’s struggle.
The reality is, ending slavery was not a race thing. It was an evil thing. It violated the tenets of the Constitution. White and black people joined together to fight it. They unified. Black slaves fought side-by-side with their white countrymen to end the evil. That is unifying.
The Left doesn’t want this. They want to make this a black holiday a “black only” holiday. They want to use this holiday to divide, not unify.
Don’t buy into it.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/juneteenth-gay-pride-celebrations-allowed-in-city-that-canceled-independence-day-parade