Chicago: ‘Find Some Place to Loot’

Posted on | August 16, 2020 | 1 Comment

Say hello to Aaron Neal, criminal mastermind:

A 20-year-old man announced: “I’m going to find some place to loot” while filming himself on Facebook Live breaking into a Gold Coast neighborhood ATM with a hammer during the second widespread Mag Mile looting of the summer, prosecutors said Saturday afternoon.
The suspect, Aaron Neal, was in court Saturday, facing felony charges of burglary and criminal damage to property to the ATM, which prosecutors said was left a “total loss,” needing more than $2,000 in repairs. It was Neal’s first arrest. . . .
About 2 a.m. Monday, Neal showed up with a group and walked into a vestibule containing an ATM at 1 E. Delaware Place in the Gold Coast neighborhood, prosecutors said during the bond hearing.
After the group left, Neal came back and began filming on Facebook Live on his phone.
“He began hitting the ATM with a hammer in an attempt to break it open,” prosecutors said.
Some from the group returned, and he continued filming himself, at one point saying: “He was going to find someplace to loot,” prosecutors said.
“This incident is corroborated by the fact that, per the state’s proffer, you put your actions over the internet for public display,” the judge said. In addition, police found surveillance from the lobby.

This week, more than 40 suspects in Chicago’s looting spree made their initial court appearances and, as Paul Mirengoff points out at Powerline, none of the suspects even mentioned their alleged motive:

Ostensibly, the looting was a response to a police shooting in the Englewood neighborhood. Yet, according to the [Chicago] Tribune, none of arrested looters was from Englewood.
In fact, no one who made a statement in court upon being arraigned even mentioned the incident. Not only was the police shooting a pretext for the looting, it was so far from the looters’ consciousness that they forgot to mention it.
The prevailing motive of this “odd mix” wasn’t “police brutality,” it was the desire to snatch free stuff and, at least some cases, to smash things. In other words, envy and resentment, not “social justice.”

Who commits crime? Criminals, that’s who. This is self-evident, but the way Americans have been taught to talk about crime, we are never allowed to mention the existence of the category “criminal.” That is to say, we are supposed to believe (or at least pretend we believe) that the tendency toward criminal behavior is equally distributed throughout society, so that the only reason prison inmates are not a representative random cross-section of the American population is social injustice.

Well, let’s look at who got arrested for looting in Chicago:

More than a hundred people were arrested as blocks of stores were trashed, 13 officers were injured and downtown was shut for hours as police struggled to control unruly crowds late Sunday into Monday morning. A security guard and another person were shot downtown.
At least one person was charged with attempted murder, five with aggravated battery against police or resisting arrest, 28 for burglary and looting, six for gun possession and the rest for theft or criminal damage to property. . . .
Carloads of people descended on downtown and the North Side, smashing shop windows and carrying out TVs, Gucci and Louis Vuitton bags, iPhones, jewelry and other merchandise, sometimes piling them into waiting U-Hauls.
One of the first arrests downtown happened minutes before 1 a.m. when a man from the East Garfield Park neighborhood used a brick to smash a front window of the Burberry store on North Michigan Avenue.
As cops closed in, prosecutors said he hurled a brick and hit one of the officers in the head. . . .
Two brothers and another man, all with felony backgrounds, allegedly helped clean out an Apple store near Halsted Street and North Avenue in Lincoln Park. When police pulled over their blue Chevy Tahoe, they found $17,000 worth of iPhones inside. . . .
On Huron Street, video shows a man inside the Lester Lambert store methodically handing display cases of jewelry — as well as a gun found in a lockbox — to people waiting outside. As police arrived, he ran from the store and slammed into the commander of the Near North police district, knocking her to the ground.
He told arresting officers that he learned of the looting on Facebook.
Six men were caught with guns at looting scenes, including a convicted felon and registered gun offender who prosecutors said fled in a getaway car outside the Louis Vuitton store, leaving behind his loaded handgun with an extended magazine. He was ordered held on $300,000 bail.

These crimes were not committed by a random cross-section of the population. While some of the suspects, including the young criminal mastermind Aaron Neal, had no prior arrest record, that doesn’t mean they were upstanding citizens prior to the outbreak of what the media call “unrest.” In a city as violent as Chicago — where 437 people have been shot to death so far this year, and more than 2,000 others wounded by gunfire — the police don’t have a lot of time to bother investigating property crimes, low-level drug trafficking, etc. So that means there are a lot of criminals roaming the streets who’ve never been caught. In fact, nearly half of homicides in Chicago went unsolved last year, which means that there are literally hundreds of murderers out on the streets.

It’s not really a mystery why Chicago is Crime City, U.S.A, nor is it a mystery how Lori Lightfoot got elected mayor.

Mayor Lightfoot is a Democrat. Who votes for Democrats? Criminals do.

Whenever Democrats get elected, criminals celebrate this as a victory. The looting in Chicago was basically a Joe Biden rally. Here is police video showing the crime spree in downtown Chicago:

They don’t look like Trump voters, do they?

Category: Chicago, Crime

FMJRA 2.0: Waiting For The Electrician, Or Someone Like Him

Posted on | August 16, 2020 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Waiting For The Electrician, Or Someone Like Him

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Anna Kendrick
Animal Magnetism
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles From Tyranny
A View From The Beach
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A Musical Interlude
Bacon Time
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The Other Podcast Rides Again!
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FMJRA 2.0: Who’s Gonna Drown In Your Blue Sea?
A View From The Beach
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The Centurion, Some Collections, & A Fistful Of Manga
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Probably Not Trump Voters: 20 Shot When Gunfight Breaks Out at D.C. Party
357 Magnum
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A View From The Beach

Probably Not Trump Voters: Looters Smash Stores in Downtown Chicago
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Living In Anglo-America
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In The Mailbox: 08.10.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
EBL

Chicago: Crime City, U.S.A.
Dark Brightness
Bacon Time
A View From The Beach
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Kamala the Cop Is Biden’s VP Pick
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In The Mailbox: 08.11.20
357 Magnum
Proof Positive
A View From The Beach
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She Ain’t Us’: How the #ADOS Attack Undermines ‘Phony’ Kamala
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In The Mailbox: 08.12.20
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Proof Positive
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New York: ‘I Don’t Want to Leave, But I Don’t Feel Like I Have a Choice Now’
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The Pirate’s Cove
Gregor Mendel Blog
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Feminist Marina Watanabe Rejected a Guy and Turned Him Into a Nazi
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The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved
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In The Mailbox: 08.13.20
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Michigan Democrats Nominate Alleged Gay Pedophile for Congress
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In The Mailbox: 08.14.20
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The ‘Post Office Crisis’ Has Become the New ‘Russian Collusion’ for Democrats

Posted on | August 15, 2020 | Comments Off on The ‘Post Office Crisis’ Has Become the New ‘Russian Collusion’ for Democrats

There is no “crisis.” What there is, apparently, is a paranoid delusion that ORANGE MAN BAD is trying to “steal” the election:

Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Democratic leaders are considering cutting short the August recess and bringing the chamber back into session to deal with the unfolding crisis at the U.S. Postal Service, according to Democratic sources.
The House could return to vote with the next two weeks, the Democratic sources suggested. The chamber is currently in recess, with no votes scheduled until the week of Sept. 14.
Pelosi and other top Democrats, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), discussed the possibility of returning early during an emergency leadership call Saturday afternoon.
Democrats are looking to address organizational issues at the Postal Service in the coming weeks, not to provide additional funding at this time, according to sources familiar with the discussion.
One option would be to vote on a modified version of a bill introduced by House Oversight Chair Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) earlier this week that would prohibit USPS from implementing a planned organizational overhaul that critics maintain would handicap mail-in voting.
Other top Democrats also floated addressing other issues, including expired federal unemployment benefits and voting rights. But Democratic sources said the immediate focus — at least for now — is preserving the Postal Service ahead of the election.

(Note the Democrat claim to be “preserving” the Post Office, as if Trump is actually doing something to destroy it. Delusional.)

On Friday, Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) issued a scathing statement accusing President Donald Trump and Republicans of waging an “all-out assault on the Postal Service and its role in ensuring the integrity of the 2020 election.” Their statement came after Trump said he opposes a federal infusion of funds to save the flailing postal service because he doesn’t support mail-in voting.
“The President made plain that he will manipulate the operations of the Post Office to deny eligible voters the ballot in pursuit of his own re-election,” Pelosi and Schumer said. “The President’s own words confirm: he needs to cheat to win.”

The word for this is crazy.

What is being called a “crisis” is, to the extent that it exists at all, caused by the fact that Democrats refused to negotiate a new spending bill. This has resulted in a shortfall of operational funds, because the Postal Service is a money-losing operation that requires taxpayer subsidies. It’s not as if mail isn’t still being delivered, but in the paranoid minds of Democrats, this budget issue (which they in fact caused) has gotten wrapped around their frantic drive for universal mail-in voting which, of course, would mean vote fraud on a massive scale. So when they claim Trump is trying to “cheat,” what Democrats actually mean is that Trump is not cooperating with their scheme to cheat. Anyway . . .

It’s all fake news, another phony “scandal” — Russia! Russia! Russia! — manufactured by Democrats and their media enablers. Keep in mind that the reason Democrats say mail-in voting is necessary is because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Let the reader think about what the scene was like at your local polling place on Election Day 2016. My wife and I voted at an elementary-school gym. The lines weren’t long. It wasn’t crowded. So I could easily see how in-person voting could be conducted with proper “social distancing” measures, even if the pandemic continues to rage unabated for the next 11 weeks. That’s my precinct, in a rural area.

Guess where Democratic voters live? In big cities, run by Democrats, where the lines always stretch around the block on Election Day.

So, yeah, “social distancing” might be problematic for Democratic voters, but guess whose problem that is? Not mine.

Screw you, Nancy. Screw you, Chuck.

You wanted to play games with the spending bill, and this “crisis” is one consequence of your game. Choke on it, losers.

Category: Election, Nancy Pelosi

Once More Into the Breach: We Return Again to the Podcast Airwaves

Posted on | August 15, 2020 | Comments Off on Once More Into the Breach: We Return Again to the Podcast Airwaves

At our usual time — 7 p.m. ET — John Hoge and I will be bringing you our weekly rundown of the headlines at The Other Podcast.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW LIVE!

If you miss the live show, the Podbeam archive is here.

Category: Talk Radio

‘ The Battle for the Survival of the United States of America Is Upon Us’

Posted on | August 15, 2020 | 2 Comments

Let’s face it — Abe Greenwald knows how to start an essay. His opening sentence is a blunt declaration of a startling thesis which, nonetheless, Greenwald is able to sustain by evidence:

The police are indeed being defunded. The statues are coming down. The heretics are being outed. The dissenters are being silenced. The buildings are burning, and the demands are ever growing. . . .
As of this writing, Portland, Oregon, has endured more than two months straight of anarchist violence directed at federal buildings and employees. In other cities—New York, Los Angeles, Richmond, Omaha, and Austin, to name a few—mob violence continues to erupt regularly, always connected to cries for justice and sometimes resulting in death. Accelerating the general dissolution, police forces have been successfully hobbled in response to the killing of George Floyd, and the resulting spike in murder and violent crime shows no sign of abating. All the while, armchair lynch mobs have continued to claim the scalps of those who veer from or merely stumble on the path to social-justice enlightenment. It is the full-time job of any American with a public presence to bow down before the identity cult. Professional athletes have mutated overnight into a congeries of Kaepernicks. As for the public, 62 percent of all Americans, according to a poll by the CATO Institute, now say they’re afraid to voice their political views lest they be punished professionally.
Leading media organizations, as they did from the start, lend their approval to all of it. After months of defending chaos in the streets as “mostly peaceful,” the media elite is openly covering for a movement whose defining features are intimidation and mass violence. And having completed their Internet-assigned reading in black–white relations, a majority of Americans (56 percent, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll) now find the United States guilty as charged of systemic racism. . . .

Keep in mind that this isn’t coming from some fringe right-wing character with a conspiracy theory podcast. Greenwald is executive editor of Commnetary, the leading publication of Jewish conservatism. He is the right-hand man to Jon Podhoretz, whose father was a protégé of Lionel Trilling, who persuaded Norman Podhoretz to take over Commentary after the death of founding editor Elliot Cohen. Given this pedigree — dating back to an era when the magazine sought to save America from Soviet-backed “progressivism” in the person of Henry Wallace — certainly Greenwald must be cognizant of Commentary‘s intellectual seriousness. We must understand that Jon Podhoretz would not permit Greenwald to publish anything that would jeopardize Commentary’s reputation, and if Podhoretz signed off on this column declaring that we are in “the battle for the survival of the United States of America” . . . Well, we are at the last ditch, my friends.

A lot of my conservative friends enjoy sneering at “neocons” (and certainly Commentary can claim to be neoconservativism’s original voice), because of the advocacy of open borders and endless overseas aggression that have in the past been so closely allied with that faction. However, the Trump era has had a clarifying effects that cuts both ways. “Progressives” have dropped their mask, and come out as the destructive radicals they really are, while the fainthearts and phonies in the ranks of conservatism — Rick Wilson, Max Boot, Charlie Sykes, Bill Kristol, et al. — are now openly on the side of the radicals. So very convenient for the friends of America’s enemies to identify themselves.

Category: Culture

In The Mailbox: 08.14.20

Posted on | August 15, 2020 | 2 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

OVER THE TRANSOM
Red Pilled Jew: Texas Boy Once Thought Safe From Forced Transitioning In Danger Again
Ammo.com: Joe Biden On Gun Control
357 Magnum: Because Keeping Criminals In Jail Is Unfair
EBL: Bill & Ted Face The Music
Twitchy: Director Of Sports Journalism At Northwestern’s Medill School Needs 2A Refresher
Louder With Crowder: #BlackLivesMatter Says They’re Coming For Your Homes Now. How About No?
Vox Popoli: The Sino-Jewish War, also, Score One for The Concerned Consumers
According To Hoyt: Colorado’s Paste-Eating Governor Polis
Director Blue: Six Reasons To Vote Democrat This November

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American Greatness: Biden’s Ukraine Problem Isn’t Going Away, also, Trump – Clinesmith Guilty Plea “Just The Beginning”
American Power: Professors Fear COVID-19 As Colleges Reopen
American Thinker: Kamala Has Already Struck Out, also, Democrats Dance With The Devil
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Enthusiasm Gap Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban-American Yo-Yo Arrested In Cuba For Buying Some Soap
BattleSwarm: LinkSwarm For August 14
Cafe Hayek: Will The Beirut Boom Cause A Beirut Boom?
CDR Salamander: France Returns Contra Ottoman – I Mean, Turkish Aggression, also, Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Gov. Charlie Baker Is Placing Massachusetts Under Double Secret Probation, also, I Wonder Where The Kids Of Fleeing New Yorkers Will Flee To?
Don Surber: Finally, An Obamagate Scalp, also, Riots Should Re-Elect Trump
First Street Journal: The Elites Do So Despise Populism
The Geller Report: Nevada’s Democrat Governor Fines Church For Holding Service In Open Casino, also, Turkey’s Erdogan Threatens To Suspend Diplomatic Ties With UAE Over Israel Treaty
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post Of The Day, also, A Basic Principle Of Hiring
Hollywood In Toto: Boys State Shows Perils Of Modern Democracy, also, Joe Rogan Shades “Activist” Alyssa Milano – Her Phone Stopped Ringing
JustOneMinute: It’s Happening!
The Lid: Four Tankers Containing Iranian Oil “Confiscated” By Justice Department
Legal Insurrection: Mika’s Meltdown, also, Former FBI Lawyer Pleads Guilty To Falsifying Carter Page FISA Document
The PanAm Post: Maduro Frontman Tries To Bribe Cape Verde, also, U.S. Sanctions Break Red China/Chavez Company
Power Line: The College Death Spiral, Chapter II, also, Reliance On Wind & Solar Leads To Blackouts
Shark Tank: Annie Marie Delgado Puts Out Misleading “Trump Team 2020” Voter Guide
Shot In The Dark: Convenient Justice
The Political Hat: Revolution By Proxy, also, Joe Friday Predicted CHAZ/CHOD
This Ain’t Hell: Valor Friday, also, A Friendly Gesture Would Be Nice…
Victory Girls: More Nasty Toys – LOL Surprise Dolls
Volokh Conspiracy: 9th Circuit Rules CA Ban On “High Capacity” Magazines Violates Second Amendment
Weasel Zippers: Paterson NJ To Hold “Do-Over” Election Due To Massive Fraud In First Vote, also, Oregon State Cops Leaving Portland Since DA Won’t Prosecute Rioters
The Federalist: Crowd Boos MLS Players Kneeling For National Anthem, also, Austin City Council Defunds Police & 911 While Increasing Taxpayer Funds For Abortion
Mark Steyn: You Say Kamala, I Say Kamala

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Michigan Democrats Nominate Alleged Gay Pedophile for Congress

Posted on | August 14, 2020 | 1 Comment

That headline might be misleading. Jon Hoadley’s homosexuality is not “alleged.” He is definitely gay. It’s the pedophile part of the phrase that is unproven and, I mean, nobody knows if Jon Hoadley lusts for boy flesh. Not for certain, anyway. But I’m sure many Michigan Democrats would trust him to have a sleepover with their boys, because they’re tolerant and progressive like that:

A Michigan lawmaker and rising star in the Democratic Party who is running for Congress in one of the nation’s most contested seats discussed drug use and sex in a now-deleted blog where he also published derogatory comments about women and creepy remarks about children in underwear.

It was just college humor, Democrats say in defense of Hoadley’s blog, in which he referred to women as “breeders” and made comments about 4-year-olds wearing thongs. Not evidence of pedophilia, just “college humor,” and only a right-wing extremist would harbor any suspicions about this “rising star” of the Democratic Party.

Hoadley’s rival in the Democratic primary, Jen Richardson, had some jabs in her concession statement after losing by 3,000 votes:

In her concession statement, she said she would not be issuing an endorsement for Hoadley at this time, saying, “I am also very concerned by the alleged behaviors of Rep. Hoadley exposed yesterday and do not find acceptable the casual dismissal of misogyny, use of meth, and potential pedophilia as “bad poetry.” We must hold our elected officials accountable for their actions and to the highest standards of integrity.”

Nice phrase, “potential pedophilia.” But of course, we don’t actiually know anything about Jon Hoadley’s sexual preferences, except that he is gay — hugely, definitely, proudly and unequivocally gay. Is he also into meth and little boys? We don’t know. “Potentially.”