Waking Up From Wokeness

Posted on | December 11, 2021 | Comments Off on Waking Up From Wokeness

One of the wonderful things about the Biden presidency is that, when things go wrong, Democrats can no longer blame Trump — and a whole lot of stuff is going wrong now. We are at the stage of events famously referenced by H.L. Mencken: “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

Leighton Woodhouse is a self-described “progressive” documentary filmmaker who lives in Oakland, California, and he describes the disastrous impact of “defund the police” in the Bay Area where crime has gotten completely out of control:

Shoplifters casually walk into Walgreens stores in San Francisco filling garbage bags full of merchandise. They’ve spat on, bitten, assaulted, and thrown bottles of urine at employees.
The flashmob-style “smash and grab” robberies that originated here — in places like Union Square in San Francisco and the shopping plaza in affluent Walnut Creek — have now spread across the country.
Asian seniors are brazenly assaulted in the street; one octogenarian was body slammed to death. This week, an Afghan refugee— a father of three who had worked as a translator for the U.S. army — was shot dead near a playground in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood.
And now freeway shootings are a thing. A few weeks ago, at nine in the morning, a 29-year-old mom on her way from Oakland to San Francisco for a job interview with her fiancé and two kids was randomly shot and killed in her SUV at the Bay Bridge toll plaza.

(Hat-tip: Instapundit.) Woodhouse goes on to cite data that will sound familiar to anyone who has read Heather Mac Donald’s The War on Cops and — to remind you again — he’s a progressive, with a deep sense of commitment to left-wing causes, so that admitting the truth about the destructive impact of progressive policies is quite painful to him.

Being curious about the person making these painful admissions, I checked out Woodhouse’s Twitter timeline and discovered that he’s also sick and tired of the COVID-19 panic porn. He’s got school-aged children and, like anyone else who’s done the slightest bit of research, he knows that (a) healthy children are at little risk from the coronavirus, (b) the mandatory masks-and-social-distancing regime in schools is not scientifically valid, and (c) this regime is harmful to kids.

Guess who else is rebelling against COVID-19 panic?

Most days they sit on the ground to eat outside, but parents were recently asked if their kids had permission to eat inside when it's too cold. My kids are double vaxxed so I said yes. In addition to not being allowed to sit at tables, they're not allowed to talk to each other.

— Michelle Goldberg (@michelleinbklyn) December 8, 2021

Combating Covid is a good goal. Implementing the most restrictive policies possible that have only a tenuous connection to preventing Covid and have the added effect of reinforcing fear, isolation, and lack of social skills is very bad. https://t.co/WoADyKIahz

— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) December 10, 2021

In extreme circumstances giving them up is necessary, as has been the case to varying degrees and at varying points over the last two years. But we need to be honest about how huge these sacrifices are, and only make them where actually necessary. Health theater does real harm.

— Jill Filipovic (@JillFilipovic) December 10, 2021

When you’ve lost Michelle Goldberg and Jill Filipovic . . .

Category: Progressivism

In The Mailbox: 12.10.21

Posted on | December 11, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.10.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Usual weekend deadlines for the usual weekend posts.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Woke Milwaukee DA Has Blood On His Hands
EBL: RIP Michael Nesmith
Twitchy: “You Had To Know It Was Coming”, also, Democrat-Majority Penn. Supreme Court Shoots Down Governor Wolf’s School Mask Mandate
Louder With Crowder: “My Life Is More Important To Me Than Theirs”
Vox Popoli: The Easy Way Or The Hard Way, Cuckservative Advanced Revolution, and Pedo Zeppelin
According To Hoyt: How PECULIAR, also, Head Script
Monster Hunter Nation: Servants Of War eARC Out Now! also, Swag Update 2021
Stoic Observations: Seven Rules For Saving All Your Stuff
Gab News: On Christian Masculinity

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Mel Gibson, Hungary, & The Sense Of Normal
American Greatness: The GOP’s Multiethnic Working Class Coalition Is Taking Shape
American Power: On The Banks Of The Furious Congo River
American Thinker: Build Back Better – How To Destroy A National Economy
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Climate Model Friday
Babalu Blog: Three Cuban Kids Arrested For Peaceful Protests During 7/11 Turn 18 In Prison, also, Cuban Dictatorship Used Saudi Infrastructure Gift To Build Castro Center
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For December 10
Behind The Black: Red China Launches Two Satellites With Long March 4B, also, Russia Selects First Cosmonaut To Fly On Dragon
Cafe Hayek: A Sour Deal
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: All The Hysteria Over The Omicron Variant Is Truly Moronic, Sarah Silverman & Debra Messing Channel Opus The Penguin On “Nun Beating”, and COVID Has Become A Racket
Don Surber: Get #BLM To Protect Your Stores, also, NYT Calls Bidenomics “COVID Malaise”
Gates Of Vienna: BBC Misinformation – Jihadism, Brother Can You Spare A Dime?, and Entire Family Indirectly Taken Out By The Vax
The Geller Report: Inflation Rate Approaches 40-Year High, also, Victor Davis Hanson – America’s Turning Into A Third World Country
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of The Day, Jets At The Center Of The Galaxy, and That’s Gonna Leave A Mark
Hollywood In Toto: How Being The Ricardos Missed A Golden Opportunity, also, Has Paul Verhoeven Gone Too Far With Benedetta?
The Lid: Dementia Joe Reads “End of Message” During Dole Eulogy
Legal Insurrection: Swarthmore Student Op-Ed Wonders If White People Should be Kicked Out Of Parties, Anti-Police Mobs Vandalize UC-Davis Campus, and Mockery Ensues After USA Today Publishes “Is Math Racist?” Article
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday – Colonels & Pearl Harbor
Outkick: Longtime Broncos WR Demaryius Thomas Dead At 33, Second Female Penn Swimmer Steps Up, and TikTok – The Silent Abuser
Power Line: A Smollett Postscript, Meet Rachel Rollins, and How Bad Is The Democrats’ Latino Voter Problem?
Shark Tank: FL Democrats Upset With Salazar’s Maduro & Castro Pics
Shot In The Dark: Moving Forward, And Just When I Wondered…, and Sheriff Hutchinson
STUMP: Quick Takes – Homicides & City Partisan Control, Querying WONDER By Gender, and SALT Stuff
The Political Hat: Woke Reindeer Indoctrinates Kids About Pronouns, also, Firing Line Friday – The Idea Of The Great Ideas
This Ain’t Hell: Troops Deployed To Southern Border Do Deployed Troop Shenanigans, Valor Friday, and Senate Unanimously Passes Resolution Declaring 12/18 “Wreaths Across America Day”
Transterrestrial Musings: The Cabal That Foisted Joe Biden On Us, Abigail Schrier, and Elon Musk
Victory Girls: Inflation Is Real & Ugly, No Matter The Spin
Volokh Conspiracy: A Murky Decision In The Texas S.B. 8 Case
Weasel Zippers: Biden Refuses To Answer Questions On Russia, Ukraine, Stares Blankly, Secularist Group Targets Wreaths On Veterans’ Graves – “An Atrocity”, and Fake Doctor Jill Biden Claims Joe’s Mentally Fit
The Federalist: Five Biggest Takeaways From The Latest Review Of Wisconsin’s Rigged 2020 Election, Joy Behar Accidentally Admits Conservatives Were Right About Sex, and Bipartisan Campaign Launches To Pass California School Choice Initiative After Failed Recall
Mark Steyn: From Camelot To Coronalot

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Category: Linkagery

GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! Chicago Jury Convicts Jussie Smollett in Fake ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax

Posted on | December 10, 2021 | Comments Off on GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! GUILTY! Chicago Jury Convicts Jussie Smollett in Fake ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax

It was “The Dumbest ‘Hate Crime’ Hoax Ever.” Because no intelligent person ever believed Jussie Smollett’s tale of being assaulted by MAGA-hat-wearing white men — in Chicago, at 2 o’clock in the morning, when the temperature was below freezing — his decision to go to trial meant that he was attempting jury nullification. Fortunately, he has failed:

A jury found disgraced actor and former “Empire” star Jussie Smollett guilty on five of six charges in a case where he is accused of staging an anti-gay, racist attack on himself nearly three years ago and then lied to Chicago police about it.
The verdict came after a roughly one-week trial in which two brothers testified that Smollett recruited them to fake an attack on him near his home in downtown Chicago in January 2019. Smollett repeatedly denied the claims. The brothers said Smollett orchestrated the hoax, telling them to put a noose around his neck and rough him up in view of a surveillance camera, and that he said he wanted video of the hoax made public via social media.
Smollett called the brothers “liars” and said their account was “100% false. He testified over two days about being the victim of what he said was a hate crime, telling the jury ”there was no hoax.”
Abimbola Osundairo, who worked with Smollett on the Chicago set of “Empire,” and his brother, Olabingo Osundairo, also testified that Smollett paid them $3,500 for faking the attack. Smollett said the money was for meal and workout plans that Abimbola Osundairo was providing so the actor could be more toned for upcoming performances.
The Jan. 29 assault was reported to police, prompting a massive investigation that a lead detective said included some two dozen officers and 3,000 staff hours. The investigation — which included video from surveillance cameras, GPS and taxi and rideshare records — led police to the Osundairo brothers, who told detectives Smollett had staged the alleged hate crime.
Smollett’s defense attorneys argued that the brothers attacked the actor — who is gay and Black — because they were homophobic and didn’t like “who he was.” They also alleged the brothers made up the story about the attack being staged to get money from Smollett, and that they told him they wouldn’t testify against him if he paid them each $1 million.
The class 4 felony carries a prison sentence of up to three years, but experts have said Smollett would likely be placed on probation and ordered to perform community service.

We have the receipts of Democrats who promoted this hoax:

Will there be any consequences for Biden, Harris, AOC and the other Democrats who pretended to believe this hoax? Because I don’t believe they ever really did believe it. As I say, every intelligent person recognized this as a hoax from the very moment it was first reported, and I do not think any of these people — not even AOC — is so stupid as to have thought this was really “an attempted modern day lynching.” No, they knew it was a lie, and deliberately amplified it, as a dishonest slander against every Republican (and every white person) in America.

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.”

Democrats routinely violate the Ninth Commandment.

Category: Chicago, Crime

In The Mailbox: 12.09.21

Posted on | December 10, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.09.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.

Better late than never.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: …And Christmas For All
EBL: SHUT UP WHEATON – Nobody Likes A Poser
Twitchy: The Atlantic Debunks The Moral Panic Around The “Nonexistent” Child Sex Trafficking Epidemic
Louder With Crowder: Mike Rowe Shuts Down Haters For Attacking Him Over Funny Omicron Variant Meme
Vox Popoli: They’re Getting Desperate, How To Build A Town, and 1,000 Videos On UATV

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Make Grim Examples of Them All
American Conservative: The End Of Mass Tourism, also, A Conservative Vision For Albania
American Greatness: Devin Nunes Isn’t Done Saving Our Republic, also, 1/6 Police Beating Victim Speaks – “I Could Have Died”
American Power: Abigail Schrier, also, Schools Confront Wave Of Student Misbehavior
American Thinker: A Callout To Physicians, also, The Concentration Camp Olympics
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Daily Nuclear News
Babalu Blog: Cuban Independent Journalist Beaten In Her Home, also, As The Omicron Virus Hits Cuba, The Dictatorship Opens The Door To Apartheid Tourists
BattleSwarm: Faster, Blue Cities! Kill! Kill!
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, NASA Issues Vague Update On Lucy’s Solar Panel Deployment Issue, and India Issues New Schedule For Lunar & Manned Missions
Cafe Hayek: What Free Trade Really Does
CDR Salamander: Diversity Thursday
Da Tech Guy: Cuomo Discarded But Harris Isn’t Going Anywhere Under The Fedora, Report From Louisiana – A Cantankerous Mood, and Is The Global COVID Tyranny Based On A Heap of Lies?
Don Surber: Democrat Policies Set New Highs For Murder, Voting With Their Feet, and Biden Calls For Unity While Shunning His VP
First Street Journal: The Powers That Be In Philadelphia Continue To Lie And Blame Each Other For Crime Problem
Gates Of Vienna: Ho! Ho! Ho!, also, An Outcast’s Christmas
The Geller Report: Mark Meadows Sues Pelosi’s 1/6 Committee Over Subpoena, Senate Votes 52-48 To Reject Biden’s Jab Mandate For Business, and Trump Says McConnell Holds All The Cards But Doesn’t Have The Guts To Play Them
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, A Surprising Exoplanet, and Ipse Dixit
Hollywood In Toto: Don’t Look Up – Insert Your Favorite Disaster Insult Here
The Lid: Violent Crime Hits Record Highs In Democrat-Run Cities
Legal Insurrection: College-Aged Democrats More Likely To “Despise” Republicans, 38% Of Americans Polled Have Positive View Of Socialism, and Jussie Smollett Found Guilty On Five Of Six Charges
Michelle Malkin:
Nebraska Energy Observer: Drives Me Wild!
Outkick: No, Simone Biles Was Not “Athlete Of The Year”, Trans Penn Swimmer’s Teammate Speaks Out As “Lia” Thomas Smashes More Records, and COVID Data Shows Infections Dropped Amid Booming SEC Season, Packed Stadiums
Power Line: Record Homicides In City After City, Now He Tells Us!, and Russia Hoax Whitewash Era Begins (4)
Shark Tank: DeSantis Takes Victory Lap – “Florida Democrats Are All In Favor Of People Losing Their Jobs”
Shot In The Dark: Imagine If You Will, Coffee, and This Is “Privilege” In Action
The Political Hat: Normalization Of Wokeness – Dispensation For Whites, Doubleplusungood Words & Phrases, And The Whiteness Of “Anti-Racism”
This Ain’t Hell: Mikey Strikes Again!, Thirty Purple Hearts Approved, and SFC Alwyn Cashe Finally To Receive Medal Of Honor
Victory Girls: Biden Team – Why Not Let Putin Control Part Of Ukraine?
Volokh Conspiracy: California Stops Requiring Academic Prerequisites For Horseshoeing School
Weasel Zippers: Jussie Smollett Found Guilty, Rep. Tlaib (D-Jihad) Whines That Taxpayers Aren’t Paying Her Student Loans, and CAIR Puts Jewish Groups & Synagogues On Enemies List
The Federalist: As Students Struggle To Recover, Portland Teachers Demand Four-Day Work Weeks, Sheldon Whitehouse Squirms When Pressed On Hunter Biden, and D.A. Makes Excuses For Low Bail Freeing Man Accused In Parade Massacre
Mark Steyn: Perpetual Boosters

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Category: Linkagery

Who Should Kyle Rittenhouse Sue First? Let Me Nominate Colin Kaepernick

Posted on | December 9, 2021 | Comments Off on Who Should Kyle Rittenhouse Sue First? Let Me Nominate Colin Kaepernick

How much money does the failed ex-NFL quarterback have? Kyle Rittenhouse’s lawyers should first (a) research Kaepernick’s net worth, then (b) sue him for that amount, and (c) take all his money.

People are going to have be schooled about libel, and it seems appropriate that Colin Kaepernick should be front of the class.

Although I’m not a lawyer, permit me to explain the “public figure” loophole in U.S. libel law, i.e., the Sullivan precedent. This is important to know — if someone is a “public figure,” a category that includes politicians and pro athletes, you can write damned near anything about them and have little risk of losing a libel suit, because the plaintiff in such a case must prove “actual malice.” People who are ignorant of libel law (a category that apparently includes a lot of blue-check Twitter types like Kaepernick) are prone to think they have license to say anything about anybody. But you can’t lie about an ordinary citizen the way the media lied about Donald Trump, which is why Nicholas Sandmann (a high school kid, not a public figure) ended up winning settlements from the Washington Post and CNN. Anyone who thinks it’s fair game to accuse Kyle Rittenhouse, an innocent teenager who was acquitted at trial, of being a “white supremacist” engaged in “terroristic acts” needs an education, and forcing Colin Kaepernick to defend those libelous claims in court would be a splendid educational opportunity.

Whatever else the flaws of “our current system” may be, it ought to function well enough to bankrupt Colin Kaepernick.

Good luck with that jury in Kenosha, Mr. Kaepernick.

This kid Rittenhouse was a lot more accurate under pressure than you were @Kaepernick7 during your 3-16 streak that lost you your job in the NFL.

— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) November 19, 2021

Category: Celebrities, Crime

In The Mailbox: 12.08.21

Posted on | December 9, 2021 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 12.08.21

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Silicon Valley delenda est.
OVER THE TRANSOM
Ninety Miles From Tyranny: The 90 Miles Mystery Box, Episode #1560
357 Magnum: Building Firearms Is Not Rocket Science
EBL: What Happened With Waukesha? also, Finnish Exceptionalism
Twitchy: Wil Wheaton Loses His Shit Over Dave Chappelle, also, “Is Math Education Racist?”
Louder With Crowder: Ted Nugent Rips Biden Administration – “You Soulless Pricks”, also, Enjoy Your Schadenfreude Over Hillary Getting Choked Up Over Her 2016 Victory Speech
Vox Popoli: The City Of The Devil, I Really Don’t Miss It, and The Mark Of The Midwit
Stoic Observations: She’s So Heavy
Gab News: Christians, December 6th Was Your Wakeup Call

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Washington’s Kurdish Client Collapses, also, Destroying Notre Dame
American Greatness: White House Reportedly Meeting With Media To “Reshape” Negative Coverage Of Biden
American Power: Gordon Prange, At Dawn We Slept
American Thinker: Multiple Fallacies Elevate COVID Vaxes Over COVID Treatments, also, The Opposite Of Tyranny Is Not Democracy
Animal Magnetism: Animal’s Hump Day News
Babalu Blog: More Than 800 New Political Prisoners In Communist Cuba Over The Last Year, also, Canadians! Stop Vacationing In Cuba & Propping Up The Repressive Communist Dictatorship!
Baldilocks: That Such Men Lived
BattleSwarm: Just Who Is Bankrolling The Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation?
Behind The Black: Today’s Blacklisted Americans, Russia Launches Two Tourists To ISS, and Strange Eroded Glacier Flows In Unnamed Mars Crater
Cafe Hayek: Regime Uncertainty
CDR Salamander: Hot, Buggy, & The Stuff Wars Are Won Of
Da Tech Guy: Paying In Cash Vs. Paying In Blood, Stacy Abrams Channels Monty Python, and A Blast From The Past – Why Neither Liz Cheney Nor “Latinx” Are Selling
Don Surber: Democrats Sour On Mask Mandates, Privilege 2021, and Trump Showed Republicans How To Win Hispanic Votes
First Street Journal: Killadelphia, also, The Left Have Internalized The “New Normal”
Gates Of Vienna: Vaclav Klaus Proposes COVID Blue Book, Merry Vaxmas (Round 2), and Eric Zemmour – The Reconquest Of France
The Geller Report: Pamela Geller On Joe Hoft Show – Biden Regime Is “Cacophony Of Chaos”
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, I’m Not Making This Up You Know, and How Are These Cities Alike?
Hollywood In Toto: Shock – Critics Savage Progressive Climate Change Satire Don’t Look Up, also, Undeniable Proof The Left Wants To Take Down Joe Rogan
The Lid: Judge Refuses To Reveal Info About FBI Raid On Project Veritas
Legal Insurrection: Iowa U. To Pay Nearly $2 Million In Settlement With Christian Student Groups, Ohio Valley U. In West Virginia To Close Its Doors, and Calif. Mom Says School Bribed Her Son With Pizza To Get The Jab
Michelle Malkin: Inside The Vaccine Passport Racket
Nebraska Energy Observer: Sometimes They Get It Right, also, The Epistle Of Ignatius Of Antioch To Polycarp, Bishop Of Smyrna
Outkick: LSU May Not Have A Scholarship QB For The Texas Bowl, NBA Begged Enes Freedom To Take Off Shoes That Criticized Red China, and Bob Costas Rips LeBron, Kaepernick, & Red China
Power Line: The Geek In Pictures – Delta-Omicron Edition, Good News On The Latino Vote, and Mr. Socialist Confesses
Shark Tank: Florida Democrats Spell Out Spending Priorities
Shot In The Dark: Vibrant, They Can’t Handle The Truth, and Everything’s A Wedge
STUMP: COVID Data Follies
The Political Hat: Newspeak In Action
This Ain’t Hell: Jose Carlos Montanez – YAPS, Blog Of Shame
Transterrestrial Musings: The Democrats, Techno-Optimism, and The Unbearable Whiteness Of Being An Academic
Victory Girls: Putin Zooms Biden On Ukraine – Why You Should Care
Volokh Conspiracy: Showing “20 Things You Didn’t Know About China” Video Leads To Firing Of MN Teacher
Weasel Zippers: Leftist Actor Blames “White Supremacists” After Woke Christmas Series Bombs, Biden Says Americans Have To Pay Their Fair Share – For Gas, and Ted Cruz – Biden Surrendered To Russia On Nordstream 2 Pipeline
The Federalist: Tucker Carlson Rails Against Neocon Push for War In Ukraine, Jeff Zucker Failed To Address Serial Sexual Misconduct At CNN & Should Be Fired Immediately, and Democrats & Planned Parenthood Working To Turn California Into Baby-Killing Dystopia
Mark Steyn: Live Around The Planet, also, By Jingo If We Do

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Category: Linkagery

Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Torches Fox Christmas Tree in Manhattan

Posted on | December 8, 2021 | Comments Off on Crazy People Are Dangerous: Psycho Torches Fox Christmas Tree in Manhattan

Happy holidays from New York’s “catch-and-release” courts:

A 49-year-old Brooklyn man has been arrested for allegedly setting a huge Christmas tree outside the FOX News building in midtown Manhattan ablaze early Wednesday, causing a wild scene and endangering passersby, police said.
Craig Tamanaha was taken into custody at the West 48th Street and Sixth Avenue scene just after midnight and charged hours later with a bevy of crimes, including arson, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and trespassing, the NYPD said.
Police officials said the fire, which was deemed international by fire marshals, caused an estimated $500,000 in property damage in addition to unnecessarily frightening anyone who happened to walk by as the stunning scene developed.
No injuries were reported, but FOX News Media CEO Suzanne Scott blasted the incident as a “malicious arson attack” in a company-wide email sent Wednesday.
It wasn’t immediately clear how the fire was set, though authorities say Tamanaha allegedly had a lighter at the time he was taken into custody. . . .
It’s also not clear why Tamanaha allegedly set the blaze in the first place, but police say the fire didn’t appear to be premeditated or politically motivated. They believe he acted alone.
NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea said Wednesday that Tamanaha is known to the department and has a series of low-level out-of-state arrests, possibly from cases stemming out of Texas, and drug-related offenses.
“He was issued earlier this year some appearance tickets and didn’t come back to court, which is something we see all too often,” Shea said. “I think it’s one where he’s working alone. It’s all very fresh. It’s probably a little preliminary to say what the motivation was. Was mental illness a factor? We’re looking at all of that.”

While the suspect has a Brooklyn address, police say he is known to “loiter” in the Manhattan district near Fox HQ:

Crime is soaring all over the city with violent attacks on subways and random assaults in the street happening far more frequently than in the past two years.
Outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio has been largely blamed for the surge in violence, after softening bail reform to let criminals out of jail early then moving homeless people out of shelters and onto the streets or into hotels during the height of the pandemic.
His term ends on December 31.

Worst mayor ever — worse even than David Dinkins. But it’s not as if New Yorkers are innocent victims — this pro-criminal/anti-cop policy is what they voted for when they elected Bill de Blasio. And of course, 78% of Manhattan residents voted for Biden, so that he could wreck America the way Democrats have already wrecked New York. The city is almost entirely populated by malicious, hateful people, because no decent or honest person would live there. New Yorkers certainly deserve whatever evil fate befalls them, and psychos burning down Christmas trees are the least of their problems. After all, we are talking about people so wicked that they have elected and re-elected Sen. Chuck Schumer.