In The Mailbox: 08.15.23 (Early Morning Edition)

Posted on | August 15, 2023 | Comments Off on In The Mailbox: 08.15.23 (Early Morning Edition)

Silicon Valley delenda est.

OVER THE TRANSOM
357 Magnum: Good Guys 3, Bad Guys 0
EBL: Blame Hawaii Democrats For Maui Fires, Oliver Anthony: Rich Men North of Richmond, Cologne Cathedral Completed, and Georgia Indictment? Does this mean no library for Donald J. Trump?
Twitchy: Glenn Greenwald Roasts “True Conservative” David French, Laura Loomer Outs “Racist, Transphobic, & Homophobic” “Max Nordau”, and National Review Tells Us The Song Oliver Anthony Should Have Written
Louder With Crowder: Lizzo dropped from Super Bowl consideration amid alleged fat-shaming, Barack Obama wrote to ex-girlfriend that he fantasized about sexing up dudes in newly discovered redacted letter, and Rolling Stone leads the expected media attacks against Oliver Anthony and “Rich Men North of Richmond”
Vox Popoli: The Unaccountable, How to Fail, Vocation and Articulation, They Can’t Hide the Bodies, and SF is Dying and LA is Next
Stoic Observations: With No Further Assistance Or Guidance From You
Gab News: Academics Shocked By Study Comparing Gab & Facebook

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
Adam Piggott: Should a Woman save her Husband or her Child?
American Conservative: Why Bill Watterson Vanished, also, The Other Populist in the Race
American Greatness: Joe Biden’s Race Against the Truth, Introducing Contempt of Public, and GOP Critics Call Appointment of David Weiss to Special Counsel an Attempt to ‘Whitewash’ Biden Family Corruption
American Thinker: Comparing the Tactics of the Dems to the Nazis is No Longer Seen as Unreasonable, The Weaponization of Justice, and Of Course the Climate Has Always Been Changing
Animal Magnetism: Goodbye, Blue Monday
Babalu Blog: Russian tourists complain of nightmarish experiences in their Cuban ‘dream holidays’, Cuba’s medical crisis totally ignored by UN, EU, capitalist governments and world’s fawning news media, Cuban dictatorship launches new propaganda campaign in the U.S., Slide show: Havana’s fountains prove the city is dying of thirst — except at apartheid hotels, of course, and Cuba’s self-employed face eight-fold increase in their social security taxes
Baldilocks: Evil Twin
BattleSwarm: Red China’s New Enemy: Deflation, Red China Is Screwed: Pipe People, and Ruble Now A Penny
Behind The Black: Red China’s Long March 3B launches radar satellite, Axiom signs deal with Poland and ESA to send Polish astronaut to Axiom’s future space station, Residual ice on the shaded north-facing slope of northern Martian crater, Chandrayaan-3 completes next-to-last orbital maneuver before releasing Vikram lander, and Today’s blacklisted American: Gestapo in Kansas raid home of 98-year-old newspaper owner, causing her death
Cafe Hayek: A “Climate Psychology Certificate Program”?
CDR Salamander: Red China’s Summer From The Aleutians To Guadalcanal, also, Industrial Security At Last?
Chicago Boyz: Disturbing
Da Tech Guy: Modern students suck, The Single Best Explanation of “Woke” Christianity Actually is, The studio albums by The Band, ranked, and DeSantis 2024 is to the GOP Deepstate Establishment what Greek Food is to Leonard Hofstadter
Dana Loesch: Trump Charges Leaked In Georgia?,
Don Surber: It’s Our Party & We’ll Trump If We Want To
First Street Journal: The Feds believe that conservative Catholics are an extremist threat, Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, and The left want poorer, minority neighborhoods to have nicer things, but fret that them having nicer things will attract more white people to move in!
Gates Of Vienna: It Ain’t Over Till the Imam Sings, Paul Weston: “Question Everything”, What’s a Few Death Threats Among Friends?, On the Beach, and Deportation? What’s That?
The Geller Report: Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel Confirms 10K Voter Registrations Delivered to Muskegon Clerk in October 2020 Were FRAUDULENT, Bribed Biden Asks for ANOTHER $40 Billion in Additional Nazi Ukraine Aid, and Two Princeton, MIT Scientists Say EPA Climate Regulations Based on a ‘Hoax’
Hogewash: A Hazy Lenticular Galaxy, A Cosmic Ribbon, A Rocket Launch As Seen From The ISS, Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, and A Birthday
Hollywood In Toto: Judy Greer Shines (Yet Again) in Aporia, Shape of Shadows Looks Beyond Paranormal Hot Spot, Tom MacDonald’s ‘Your America’: Destructive Ideologies Come from the Left, and Jim Carrey’s Truman Show Predicted Our Binge-Watching Age
The Lid: Hunter’s New Special Council Appointment Is A False Flag, also, Bring Back ‘Redskins’ Movement Is Gaining Steam, And LOOK Who’s Driving It!
Legal Insurrection: George Washington U. Cuts Ties With Group Following Vote of Support for BDS, Trump Indicted on 13 Counts in Georgia 2020 Election Probe, West Virginia University Planning to Cut a Dozen Majors, Reduce Staff, NY Democrat: Erie County Won’t Take More Migrants After Second Alleged Assault Involving Asylum Seeker, U.S. Energy Industry Warns Biden EPA’s Proposed Carbon Emissions Rules are ‘Unworkable’, and Maui’s Wildfire Disaster: Media Pushes ‘Climate Crisis’ Cause, People Are Pushing Back
Nebraska Energy Observer: Saturday – just for you, Tenth Sunday after Trinity, and Remembrance and Legacy
Outkick: Male Powerlifter Sets Another Women’s Record At Canadian Championship; Riley Gaines, Martina Navratilova React, Michael Oher Alleges Tuohy Family Tricked Him, Never Adopted Him, And That He Lost Out On Millions In ‘Blind Side’ Movie, Tim Tebow Has No Regrets About How His Faith May Have Impacted His NFL Career, Mark Zuckerberg Pulls Out Of Fight With Elon Musk, Claims Tesla CEO ‘Isn’t Serious’, Russell Wilson Ruthlessly Mocked By Cardinals After Preseason Loss, and Joe Thomas Reveals The Moment He Knew Johnny Manziel Was Going To Be A Problem
Power Line: Why Weiss?, Whither the Weather?, Consequences of Eroding Meritocracy, and The Great Realignment
Shark Tank: Frost Whines Suspension Of Worrell Is “Fascism”
Shot In The Dark: Life & Death In A Blue Sinecure, also, Their Best Interests
This Ain’t Hell: “Oh, My Stars, My Linda’s Gone to Mars” – David Grusch again, Skittles’ “Black Trans Lives Matter” Slogan Stirs Uproar, A real feel-good story, Treamon Lacy is indicted for crashing Humvee at Fort Stewart headquarters, and Flag Promotions Threatened!
Transterrestrial Musings: Biden Corruption Coverage, California’s Math Framework, The Pros And Cons Of Living In Each State, The Fix Is In, and AI
Victory Girls: Harry Sisson, Screeching Child, Democrat Shill, Doesn’t Know History, Trans Widow Details Dark Side of The Ideology, and RFK Jr. Flip-Flops On Abortion Limits Because He’s A Democrat
Volokh Conspiracy: Prof. Michael McConnell, Responding About the Fourteenth Amendment, “Insurrection,” and Trump
Watts Up With That: Comments On The Insanity Of EPA’s New Power Plant Rule, The Origin of the Hawaii Fires/Preventing a Similar Tragedy in the Future, Biden-backed electric vehicle company files for bankruptcy, Europe’s Self-Imposed Energy Crisis: Paying Homage to Gaia, and Great Reset U-Turn: British Mainstream Political Parties are Road Testing Anti-Green Policies
The Federalist: Generational Divides Show The Dangers Of Discarding What Makes Us Great, To Beat Leftist Groupthink, Put Down Your Phone And Pick Up A Hobby, Two Years Later, We Know The Deadly Fall Of Kabul Didn’t Have To Happen This Way, Ruth Marcus’ Alito Attack Is Grossly Hypocritical Considering Her Endorsement Of Nina Totenberg’s Work, 6 Takeaways From The Biden Admin’s Court Quest To Keep Censoring Americans Online, With The ‘Suicide Card,’ Transgender Activists Weaponize Kindness, and What My Family’s Bloody History In The Spanish Civil War Teaches About The FBI’s Assault On Catholics
Mark Steyn: No More Heroes Any More: Noir Goes to London in Night and the City, Nessun dorma, and When the Edge of the Map Moves Inward

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‘Huddled Masses’ Update: Why Is This ‘Crisis’ Costing New York Billions?

Posted on | August 14, 2023 | 1 Comment

Our moral and intellectual superiors:

New York City’s surging migrant population is set to double by June 2024 — meaning the city will be on the hook for 100,000 homeless immigrants — as costs are estimated to rise to a mind-boggling high of $12 billion over the next three years.
“We are past our breaking point,” Mayor Adams declared in a dire address at City Hall Wednesday, pleading with the feds and everyday New Yorkers to help mitigate the crisis.
The city currently spends a nightly average of $383 per 25,600 asylum-seeker households, including families with kids, adult couples and singles — for housing, food and other services, according to officials.
“With more than 57,300 individuals currently in our care on an average night, it amounts to $9.8 million a day. Almost $300 million a month and nearly $3.6 billion a year,” the mayor said.
“This is the floor, not the ceiling,” he warned, revealing the city’s current expenses could rise even further.

(Hat-tip: Sarah Hoyt at Instapundit.)

Apparently, no one else has bothered doing the arithmetic here. Saturday night on The Other Podcast, this topic was raised by John Hoge who had a post about a similar “crisis” in Massachusetts. The reason Democrat-controlled “blue” states are now caterwauling about their “crisis” is that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, whose state has been coping for years with the flood of illegal immigrants caused by the failure of the federal government to secure the border, decided to start sending busloads of these asylum seekers to the places where liberals vote for “sanctuary laws” and elect liberal Democrats who embrace such policies.

Yes, but what about the arithmetic? Adams speaks of “25,600 asylum-seeker households” costing the city $383 per day or, by another calculus, “57,300 individuals” who cost the city $9.8 million a day — which simple division tells me amounts to $171.03 per “individual.” Multiply that by 365 days of the year, and this means that New York City is spending $62,425.83 per year on each member of its “surging migrant population.”

Every man, woman and child of these “huddled masses” is consuming, at taxpayer expense, a sum nearly $10,000 a year greater than the median household income in Alabama. Of course, the migrants themselves get nary a nickel of that spending, which is funneled through a vast bureaucracy and into the coffers of non-profit social-service charities, so that what most of this money actually goes to is keeping sociology majors employed. Also, a lot of the money is paid to rent hotel rooms for the “57,300 individuals,” so that spending $9.8 million a day functions as a subsidy to hotel owners, and also guaranteeing employment for the hotel maids whose job it is to clean up after the “huddled masses.”

While it is not my habit to offer advice to liberal Democrats, perhaps Mayor Adams will heed this suggestion: New York City can help these migrants, and ultimately end the city’s refugee “crisis,” by the simple expedient of (a) giving money directly to the migrants, on condition that (b) they leave New York. Basically, offer them a free one-way plane ticket and guarantee them $3,000 a month for the first six months in their new place of residence, on condition that they never return to New York.

For a lump-sum expenditure of less than $20,000, you thereby save the taxpayers of New York $40,000 a year going forward. Oh, and I should add, that’s $3,000 a month for each member of the migrant household, including children, so that a family of four would get $12,000 a month for six months after their relocation from New York. And you know something, Mayor Adams? There are lots of places in this country — certainly Alabama is among them — where any family with a monthly income of $12,000 would be considered wealthy. Hell, these migrants could be living it up like the Kardashians, if only you’d do it my way.

Perhaps readers now understand why it’s not my habit to offer advice to liberal Democrats — my ideas are just too pure genius for them.

Category: Immigration, New York

Rule 5 Sunday: Potato On The Beach

Posted on | August 14, 2023 | Comments Off on Rule 5 Sunday: Potato On The Beach

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Many many weeks ago I posted a pic of Vietnamese model Potato Godzilla cosplaying as Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion. Here’s a recent pic of her on the beach.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

ANIMAL MAGNETISM: Rule Five Failing Bidenomics Friday, and the Saturday Gingermageddon.

EBL: Saturday Night Girls With Guns, Anti-MAGA David Weiss, Happy Birthday Red Dawn, Psycho, Pearl, Wife Shoots Husband’s Attacker Dead, The Right To Bear Butterfly Knives, Atomic Women, and “Miss Atomic Bomb”

A VIEW FROM THE BEACH: Chiara Stile, Maryland, My Maryland, ASMFC Continues Ban on Bagging Big Bass, Fish Pic Friday – Destiny Cockrell, Maryland to Provide Support for Invasive Species, Tattoo Thursday, Random Celebrity News, The Wednesday Wetness, Psycho, Barr, Pence Willing to Testify “Against” Trump?, The Monday Morning Stimulus, Palm Sunday and Oregon, My Oregon

FLAPPR: Assorted Stimulating Subjects, by guest poster Mujahed Kobbe (PBUH)

Thanks to everyone for all the luscious links!

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FMJRA 2.0: Time For New Water Coolers

Posted on | August 12, 2023 | Comments Off on FMJRA 2.0: Time For New Water Coolers

— compiled by Wombat-socho

This was a bad week for the Senators. It started well enough, as we took two out of three from the Angels in Anaheim, but then we went to Shea and got swept by the Day Traders, and came home to drop two out of three to the Hated Yankees. Our manager was Not Pleased, and barricaded himself in his office with a case each of Narragansett Beer and Moxie, after ritually smashing the water coolers to propitiate the baseball gods. We’ll host the Twins on Tuesday, and hopefully we’ll do better than we did last time. Still, we’re just a game behind the A’s and 2.5 up on the Twins, and the season is far from over.
Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley esse delendam.

News From San Francisco: ‘A Lot of People Around Here Have Mental Issues’
First Street Journal
American Free News Network
357 Magnum
EBL

Everybody Keeps Indicting Trump, Without Regard for Consequences
The Pirate’s Cove
Gregor Mendel’s Blog
The DaleyGator
Instapundit
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

First Person Plural Pronouns
A View From The Beach
EBL

FMJRA 2.0: On The Road
A View From The Beach
EBL

Rule 5 Monday: Public Benefactors
A View From The Beach
EBL

Who Is ‘Negasi Zuberi’?
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.08.23 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

CNN: Distract Much?
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.09.23 (Afternoon Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.09.23 (Evening Edition)
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.10.23
A View From The Beach
357 Magnum
EBL

Anarcho-Tyranny in Seattle and L.A.
The DaleyGator
357 Magnum
EBL

In The Mailbox: 08.11.23
357 Magnum
A View From The Beach
EBL

Top linkers for the week ending August 11:

EBL (13)
357 Magnum (10)
A View From The Beach (9)

Thanks to everyone for all the links!

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When the ‘Investigation’ Is a Cover-Up

Posted on | August 12, 2023 | 1 Comment

First, the news:

In a dramatic shift, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced Friday that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss was being upgraded to a special counsel to investigate the Biden family finances.
The decision means the probe into Hunter Biden’s taxes and his father’s potential dealings with his foreign clients will carry into the 2024 election at the same time the president’s chief rival Donald Trump faces two federal indictments brought by the same department. The tax case is likely to be moved to Washington and Los Angeles, officials said.
Republicans, however, gave the announcement a cold reaction, saying Weiss was the wrong person for the job after offering Hunter Biden a prison-sparing plea deal that fell apart.
“This move by AG Garland is part of the Justice Department’s efforts to attempt a Biden family coverup in light of [House Oversight Committee’s] mounting evidence of President Biden’s role in his family’s schemes selling ‘the brand’ for millions of dollars to foreign nationals,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer wrote.
Added House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan: “David Weiss can’t be trusted, and this is just a new way to whitewash the Biden family’s corruption. Weiss has already signed off on a sweetheart plea deal that was so awful and unfair that a federal judge rejected it.”
Garland said the appointment of Weiss to an independent prosecutor was in the “public interest,” required by department rules and requested earlier in the week by Weiss.

Ace of Spades points out that part of what’s going on here is that conferring Special Counsel status on Weiss is a way to block House investigators looking into the “sweetheart deal” plea bargain for Hunter Biden that Weiss himself orchestrated (likely under orders from, but certainly with the approval of, Attorney General Merrick Garland). More importantly, however, it’s a way for Garland to put a lid on the whole Biden family corruption saga until after next year’s election.

What Democrats are doing here, of course, is a variation of the Mueller “investigation,” altered to suit their new purposes. Remember what happened in 2017: Trump discovered after becoming president that the FBI had been doing surveillance on his campaign on the false pretext of “Russian collusion” (which pretext, of course, was manufactured by the Clinton campaign using the phony Steele dossier). So, Trump fires FBI Director James Comey and, when this provokes an outcry from Democrats, Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the matter, and appoints former FBI Director Robert Mueller as special counsel to investigate. OK, but . . . investigate what?

The real scandal in this was the “Russian collusion” hoax perpetrated against Trump by the Clinton campaign, in which the FBI played a crucial role (“Operation Crossfire Hurricane”), which was why Trump fired Comey. Instead of investigating that, however, Mueller’s investigation instead focused on trying to confirm the existence of “Russian collusion” — which proved impossible because, of course, there was no “collusion” — and also trying to prove that Trump’s firing of Comey somehow constituted “obstruction of justice.” But Trump was not the perpetrator of wrongdoing, he was the victim of wrongdoing, and the purpose of Mueller’s investigation was to conceal this truth.

In other words, the “investigation” was really a cover-up, and months passed while talking heads on MSNBC and CNN kept up their wild-eyed speculation about how “the walls are closing in” on Trump — speculation fed by leaks from Mueller’s team — keeping alive the myth of “Russian collusion” until after the 2018 midterm elections.

Mission accomplished.

Then, in March 2019, with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer now in control of Congress, Mueller releases his report, which disappointed all the cable-news talking heads by failing to confirm “Russian collusion.” The walls had signally failed to “close in,” but the Mueller had achieved his political purpose, namely to promote suspicion of Trump as a Kremlin dupe while concealing the Democratic Party dirty campaign trick behind that suspicion (and the FBI’s own role in that campaign trick).

Fast-forward to the present, and now we have a Special Counsel appointed in the Hunter Biden case who has a similar mission, namely to obstruct the House Oversight Committee’s investigation and deflect attention from the very real scandal by which the Biden family collected $20 million from Hunter’s foreign “clients.” Biden and his administration now have an excuse not to comment on anything related to Hunter because it’s “under investigation” and, the reader may be assured, there will be no leaks from Weiss’s office to the media to give fuel to speculation about the “walls closing in” on Joe Biden.

Anyone with two eyes and a brain can see what’s happening, but the media won’t tell the truth. And they wonder why we don’t trust them.

Category: Donald Trump, Joe Biden, MuellerGate, Scandal

In The Mailbox: 08.11.23

Posted on | August 12, 2023 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

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

OVER THE TRANSOM
EBL: Happy Birthday Red Dawn, The (Democrat) Fix Is In: David Weiss Appointed Special Counsel for Hunter Biden, and Democrat Donor Sam Bankman Fried Back To Jail For Witness Tampering!
Twitchy: Kari Lake Hilariously Roasts Transgender Ideology On A Farm, “It’s Like She Speaks In Gypsy Curses”, and Megan Kelly Explains Why AG Garland’s Appointment Of David Weiss As Special Counsel Is A Total Joke
Louder With Crowder: Oliver Anthony shares story behind “Rich Men North of Richmond” which has already hit #1 on iTunes, Budweiser booths are EMPTY at annual Sturgis rally that attracts half a million bikers, and Unsigned artist dominates social media with this passionate ode to middle American struggles
Vox Popoli: Immigration Blight in London, YouTube Deplatforms Scott Ritter, Wells Fargo is Short on Cash, and FBI 1, Boomerwaffen 0
According To Hoyt: How To Write Short Stories, Destroying the Future, and The Messages Fly But the Network is Down
Monster Hunter Nation: Mormons Can’t Be Warriors?, also, Writing Update- Graveyard of Demons
Gab News: X CEO Says “Awful” Speech To Be Censored

RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES
American Conservative: Revolutions Have Started on Less
American Greatness: House GOP to Subpoena Biden Family, Biden to Make $6 Billion Iranian Prison Swap, and Former Capitol Police Chief Says Federal Agencies Withheld Crucial Intelligence About J6 Threats
American Thinker: Only ‘White People’ Ever Enslaved Others, Says Black Professor, The Deadly Untrustworthiness of General Mark Milley, and Impeach Biden, Make Democrats Sweat
Animal Magnetism: Rule Five Failing Bidenomics Friday
Babalu Blog: Cuban nun weeps over the misery of the Cuban people and how the world has forgotten them, Economic ‘reforms’ in Cuba aim to exert stricter control and destroy the black market, and How Cuba lost its Cigar King of the World crown to the Dominican Republic
BattleSwarm: M1A1 Abrams Tanks Finally Heading To Ukraine, also, LinkSwarm For August 11
Behind The Black: SpaceX launches another 22 Starlink satellites, India approves new spaceport for private launches of SSLV rocket, The flat and mostly featureless flood lava plains of Mars, Today’s Blacklisted American: Best Buy joins the bigotry crowd, and Retractions of peer-reviewed scientific papers has risen 13,750% in this century
Cafe Hayek: Snowflake America
CDR Salamander: Fullbore Friday
Da Tech Guy: Five Fast Thoughts Under the Fedora, also, An Amazon Prime Streaming Invoice Story or a Matter of Trust
Dana Loesch: The Attacks On Justice Thomas Continue
Don Surber: DeSantis For President – Of Disney
First Street Journal: Teri Carter wants “common sense gun legislation”, but that will only inhibit the law-abiding
Gates Of Vienna: The Forbidden Video, Culture-Enrichers Come First, Donald Trump and Janez Janša: The Parallels, and Lula: We Must Brainwash the Children About the Climate!
The Geller Report: FBI Executes 74-year-old, Disabled ‘MAGA Trumper’ Veteran Who Facebooked About Shooting Biden
Glenn Reynolds: Vivek Ramaswamy Channels Robert Heinlein & Me
Hogewash: Team Kimberlin Post of the Day, Tycho’s Supernova, A Crisis Flood of Immigrants, and Dangerous? To Whom?
Hollywood In Toto: Joe Rogan Shares Oliver Anthony’s ‘Rich Men’ Battle Cry, TMNT Mutant Mayhem – Gross, Gloomy Franchise Reboot, Why Jules Isn’t Really About Aliens, and Last Voyage of the Demeter – Gothic Horror Done Right
The Lid: Left Angry: Scientist Admits Climate change ‘Consensus’ is Fake
Legal Insurrection: American Library Association’s New Marxist President Galvanizes Opposition, Why Is UK Research Focused on a Vaccine to Prevent a New Pandemic from “Disease X”?, DC Judge Sides With Trump On DOJ Request For Broad ‘Protective Order’, U. of Delaware Settles for Millions With Thousands of Students Who Sued for COVID Tuition Reimbursement, and New College of Florida Board of Trustees Begins Process of Eliminating Gender Studies Program
Nebraska Energy Observer: Scattershot Friday
Outkick: Star HS Basketball Prospect Caleb White Dies After Collapsing During Workout, WWE Is As Valuable As The NBA, Dianna Russini Reportedly Turns Down Raise From ESPN To Accept NFL Insider Job With The Athletic, 16-Year-Old Texas Cheerleader Suffers Fatal Cardiac Arrest, Golf Writer Quits After He Says Publication Refused To Publish Pregnant Golfer’s Pro-Life, Christian Views, and Alex Morgan Breaks Silence On Embarrassing World Cup Exit: ‘Turn Into A Scar’
Power Line: The $6 billion misunderstanding, Candor dies in “updates”, EPA vs. the Grid, Part 2, and Thoughts from the ammo line
Shark Tank: Rep. Cammack Excoriates FBI’s Targeting Of Catholics
Shot In The Dark: Ill Advised, Bidenomics And That “Top Five” Ranking, and Purple-er
The Political Hat: Firing Line Friday: The Threat of Nuclear Destruction in the New World Order-New Voices-Part I
This Ain’t Hell: Bernie Sanders, a paragon of virtue, and more Soros, Valor Friday, Suspected cartel men, armed and wearing body armor, seen crossing the border into the U.S., Vietnam veteran hoping to get free hunting and fishing licenses for disabled veterans, and Red China not pleased with the US providing its input regarding the South China Sea
Transterrestrial Musings: Vivek Ramaswani
Victory Girls: Catholics Become Targets of an Overreaching State, also, RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel – Why?
Volokh Conspiracy: New Article on Insurrection, Rebellion, and Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment
Watts Up With That: The Climate Crisis Frenzy Is a Mass Hysteria Movement, Green Tasmania, the “Battery of Australia”, Runs Out of Electricity, and Hawaiian Fires: Fueled by Invasive Grasses, a Wet Spring and Human Ignition Sources
The Federalist: How Breaking Up The Organ Transplant Monopoly Will Save Lives And Dollars, Garland’s Special Counsel Gambit Confirms Hunter Investigation Was Always Shady, The FBI Targeted Traditional Catholics Because They Will Never Accept The Left’s Pagan Morality, Left-Wing Judge On Trump’s Claim Political Prosecution Is Election Interference: ‘So Be It’, and Is This Sparta? Revisionists Get The Legendary Warriors All Wrong
Mark Steyn: Live Around the Planet

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Anarcho-Tyranny in Seattle and L.A.

Posted on | August 11, 2023 | Comments Off on Anarcho-Tyranny in Seattle and L.A.

Stephen Green at Instapundit calls attention to a veteran Seattle police officer’s resignation letter:

“Their absurd policies have turned Seattle into a playground for anarchists and criminals, and they seem utterly unconcerned with the devastating consequences of their actions,” wrote Jessica Taylor, who joined the force in 1998 and resigned last week. “If you haven’t noticed, the criminals are running this city.”
Taylor refused to fill out a standard exit form and instead submitted the 15-page letter to chief of police Adrian Diaz, who she says “has brought this department and this city to its knees,” adding that the department “has transformed into a cesspool of corruption.”
Diaz and other city leaders prioritize “playing politics and pandering to radical ideologies rather than genuinely serving the city’s and its residents best interests,” Taylor said.
Taylor called Diaz a “vindictive, power-hungry individual,” telling him, “I wouldn’t trust you as far as I could throw you.”
The letter comes amid rising crime in the city, Newsweek reported:

A 2021 year-end crime report from the SPD shows that violent crime in the city rose by 20 percent, one of the highest levels in over a decade. At the same time, robberies rose by 18 percent and aggravated assaults by 24 percent. In 2022, the overall crime rate in the city grew by 4 percent compared to the previous year, with a 24 percent rise in homicide, a 4 percent rise in rape, and a 5 percent rise in aggravated assault, according to the SPD.

Nothing is more fundamental to the purpose of government than protecting the lives and property of citizens, and yet Seattle and other Democrat-controlled cities seem incapable or unwilling to perform this essential duty. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles:

Former L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva sounded the alarm Wednesday on the threat posted by dwindling law enforcement numbers, adding that it’s “no mystery” why the city is struggling to attract people to the job.
“You have a horrendous political climate where every politician was jumping over themselves in the summer of 2020 to denounce law enforcement, create a very hostile work environment [and] no one wants a job anymore,” he told “America’s Newsroom.” “Then you have weak leadership in law enforcement that double down on that because they’re the first to throw their own employees under the bus. Then they wonder why they can attract people to the job.”
The LAPD has shed over 1,000 sworn officers since 2019, according to department data. Meanwhile, crime is on the rise and arrests are declining. . . .
“The political establishment in L.A. decided, from 2020 on, ‘Let’s destroy law enforcement. Let’s bash them and shrink them because of the defunding efforts,'” Villanueva said.

Even if the district attorney wanted to send criminals to prison (which he doesn’t, because RAAAAACISM), L.A. now has such a shortage of officers that it’s becoming more difficult to apprehend criminals. The result is what the late Sam Francis described as “anarcho-tyranny”:

Francis’s term “anarcho-tyranny” refers to armed dictatorship without rule of law, or a Hegelian synthesis when the state tyrannically or oppressively regulates citizens’ lives yet is unable or unwilling to enforce fundamental protective law. Commentators have invoked the term in reference to situations when governments focus on weapon confiscation instead of stopping looters.

Just keep voting for Democrats, and see what happens.