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Taliban's supreme leader appears, sez he's not dead
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-Great Cultural Revolution
You Libs Made Your Cesspool, Now Float In It
[Townhall] It's Kurt
The cities are devolving into chaos, and perhaps that’s good — people too dumb to learn from experience or from those who know better have to learn from something, and if that’s pain, well, pain’s a great teacher.

In Philadelphia, some troubled youth who was illegally in this country, but had been let go on previous occasions post-interaction with the local gendarmes, decided to woo a local woman he met on a train the old-fashioned way, by threats and violence. The other passengers reacted as one might expect in a Democrat-run metropolis, and whipped out their iPhones to record the attack. Not coincidentally, the City of Brotherly Love — apparently of the kind endemic to the Omar clan — recently elected a Soros-bought leftist DA who thinks the real crime problem is people complaining about crime.

In Scat Francisco, the city that comedian Bobby Slayton (I believe) once memorably said "makes its own gravy," the local Walgreens drug stores are closing. The local zombies — drug-induced ones, not to be confused with the one occupying the Oval Office — like to stagger in and load up on the goods from the shelves, then carry their loot outside and sell it. Again, not surprisingly, the City (I grew up just outside of it and it has always referred to itself as "the City" though now, thanks to its bountiful harvest of bum droppings, a vulgar, rhyming adjective is more apt) recently elected a — wait for it — Soros-purchased DA who doesn’t believe in prosecuting criminals, which makes it challenging to do his job of prosecuting criminals.

Then in New York, an angry gentleman punched out a woman on a subway train. The assault was caught on video, but the assailant wasn’t caught — the other passengers went full Kitty Genovese by way of Sergeant Schultz and saw nothing. The local DA is really focused on gang-busting the kind of criminal activity that affects every day New Yorkers — like whether reimbursements to employees of the Trump organization were properly characterized for tax purposes.

I would rail and wail about how the cities are turning into chaos, but then, I don’t live in one. I live in an affluent suburb by the beach where we don’t put up with that crap. You whisper "Cops" and five back-and-whites show up looking to drag away what ever scumbag is getting out of line.

But the city dwellers choose to live like they do. It’s democracy in action. They voted for chaos, and they should suffer for it appropriately.

It is kind of sad that the rest of us will now avoid the cities, but I can live without them. ’Frisco was always arrogant and boring. I used to go there back before I got married to see friends and it was, even then, full of dumb, commie people who think they are smart and girls so ugly that they would get passed over in DC, which is saying something. Now it’s worse, with hordes of savages chasing you as you dodge mounds of hobo excrement — hard pass. Philadelphia has the Liberty Bell and cheesesteak sandwiches and little else, while today’s New York is like Vegas — fun for about 72 hours then you have to leave. That assumes you are willing to produce your papers to go in anywhere, and I am not.

No, the cities’ problems are the cities’ problems, not ours. Enjoy what you created, urban jerks.

This is why I do not get all up in arms when the locals don’t jump in when they see strangers get attacked. After all, they are simply obeying the rules they themselves made. I’d like a society where people intervene, where some disease-ridden pervert puts a paw on a woman and a thicket of handguns emerge from the belts and purses of the surrounding citizens and the miscreant is then marched off to a dungeon. But the locals don’t want that, so they don’t get it.

It’s very clear that these voters have voted for the rule requiring they be passive observers to crime, so when the witnesses shrug as thuggo goes to town, we need to understand that the city dwellers’ situation is their own doing. You can’t get a gun permit in SF or NY, yet someone expects you to take on a criminal who is not going to observe those legal niceties? How could you expect that? If you want to build a house, you don’t ban tools. If you ban tools, it’s reasonable to assume you don’t want any construction.

And imagine, if you will, the video of you attacking the attacker playing on CNN and MSNBC 24/7 — gee, do you think that somehow you will be the good guy, particularly if you are of a disfavored race while the criminal is of a favored one? Yeah, right. "Evil KKK supporter probably attacks local honor student after being inspired by DeSantis’s insurrectionist climate denial!"

Remember the parade of degenerates threatening the St. Louis couple who gunned up to defend themselves? Remember who the Soros-owned DA made the bad guys — not the hairbags invading the neighborhood but the innocent citizens defending their home. You are quite literally putting your freedom and fortune — not to mention your life — on the line by defending yourself or others in one of these hellholes. Do you think they won’t prosecute you? You, the normal citizen, are these communists’ dream defendant. Will you get convicted? Maybe, then maybe you’ll eventually get out on appeal, after you lose everything. Or not. Just look at all the people who made the mistake of getting involved and are put through hell and ask yourself — is it reasonable to ask you to take that risk to protect people so stupid they voted for the chaos they would now expect you to extricate them from?

If they want a society where fellow citizens save others from criminals, they will vote accordingly. Until then, they will get what they voted for — and what they deserve
Posted by: Frank G || 11/01/2021 12:26 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Once I had visited many cities. Now at this time I have only aversions to these places. I will wait. This crop of people will age and die off and perhaps new growth will be more productive. Surely their numbers will decline rapidly. I will calmly wait.
Posted by: Dale || 11/01/2021 16:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Remember all the wasted tax money to 'revitalize' downtowns. Accept it as a natural social evolution. When you import low productive voters to maintain power rather than allow natural migrations and shifts in purpose - It's dead, Jim.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 11/01/2021 16:30 Comments || Top||

#3  Theodore Dalrymple, from his brilliant Our Culture, What's Left of It:

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better.

When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.

To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed.

A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 22:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Soros is evil incarnate. I wish him a swift and painful demise of his choosing.
Posted by: Chealing Chomotle4158 || 11/01/2021 23:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Theodore Dalrymple is a deeply insightful mind. And yes about Mr. Soros, and all of his ilk.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/01/2021 23:43 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Ballad of Sleepy Joe (video)
Posted by: Besoeker || 11/01/2021 01:35 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  President Biden's motorcade got into a "minor accident" Friday while leaving his meeting with the Pope at the Vatican, the White House said.

President Biden hitting the road pushing his multitrillion dollar spending plan as he becomes increasingly unpopular with the American people.
Posted by: Ulusock Clotle1760 || 11/01/2021 9:10 Comments || Top||

#2  The word around Rome is that Biden's meeting with the Pope was unusually long because Biden had a bit of an "bathroom accident" at the Vatican & it had to be addressed prior to him leaving. I know we joke often about this, but this is the actual rumor going around Rome now. — Amy Tarkanian (@MrsT106) October 30, 2021.
Posted by: Ulusock Clotle1760 || 11/01/2021 9:13 Comments || Top||


#4  Joe's Losing The Game - 12 Months after his Fake Presidential Election

Posted by: Snakes Whomort4818 || 11/01/2021 9:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Jet lag, boring speeches and an incontinent old fool who just can't hack it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 11/01/2021 11:53 Comments || Top||

#6  Re. #2 - Joe thought if he spoke ex cathedra, he'd be considered infallible
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 11:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Nigel Farage blasts 'ineffectual' Biden on climate change hypocrisy: It's 'complete madness'
The former Brexit party leader says Biden presidency going 'down the tubes'

NIGEL FARAGE: Absolutely, and that's the same phenomenon that we've been through, don't produce anything at home, have it all done by Russia and other countries like that. I mean, it's complete madness. It's totally hypocritical... China's not going. Russia's not going. India, well, Modi is going, but I think very reluctant given income per head to change much in terms of coal use in India. So you basically got about 40% of the world's outputters of CO2, who are not going to budge an inch. And the rest of us... are supposed to have expensive energy in return. It doesn't make sense.
Posted by: Bill Spemble9061 || 11/01/2021 12:14 Comments || Top||

#8  It does indeed make sense, Nigel.

Why does anyone think these assholes actually care about us? Follow the money. It's all about their own wealth.

These corrupt shitheads are lining their pockets with kickbacks and sweetheart deals from their government-subsidized "green tech" and "clean tech" scam companies.

They know they can pump and dump these shitty companies to millions of foolish investors desperate to buy anything touted as "the next $TSLA."
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 11/01/2021 12:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Uhhh, Joe. No I'm Joe, you're Jenny. Where are we?

Mr. President, we are in The Throne Room.

Who...nevermind, good, I need to go.

Sir, we just got here, we are going to....no! Mr. President, not that throne room!
Posted by: swksvolFF || 11/01/2021 14:00 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah-Saudi crisis deepens and could impact Israel
[JPost] Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have expelled Lebanon’s ambassadors in recent days. Hezbollah may see an opening and could increase tensions
When are they NOT increasing?
A crisis between Hezbollah and Saudi Arabia is growing.

"We are facing a crisis created by one of the countries in the region, which is waging a brutal war against another Arab country," said Mohammed Raad, head of the Hezbollah faction in the Lebanese parliament.

The regional tensions could also affect Israel.

Raad was quoted in Iranian media in recent days. His comments refer to Saudi Arabia’s "hostile" actions against Lebanon. In fact, Riyadh responded to a Lebanese official supporting the Houthi rebels in Yemen after Lebanese Information Minister George Kordahi had appeared to praise the Houthis.

The Hezbollah official said: "One of the ministers of the Lebanese government issued a statement in support of the right of the Yemeni people to protect themselves against the aggressor coalition that has invaded their country, before assuming the post of minister in this government." Saudi Arabia and Bahrain have expelled Lebanon’s ambassadors in recent days. Lebanon’s president is seeking to heal the rift. Hezbollah may see an opening and could increase tensions. Saudi Arabia wants to harm the "stability" of Lebanon, the official said. In fact, Lebanon is unstable and bankrupt.

Hezbollah claims to be concerned that Riyadh might be making more light of the controversy because of upcoming elections. However, the reality may be that Hezbollah is trying to stoke a controversy to get votes or create a crisis.

Raad said: "Those who are creating a crisis for Lebanon do not want the elections to be held in this country, and they intend to disrupt these elections, and perhaps they realized that the results of the next elections will not be the way they want them to be."

Thirty years ago, Saudi Arabia was key to the Taif Agreement that ended the Lebanese Civil War. Riyadh is seen as generally supporting the status quo and Sunni politicians in Lebanon, such as Saad Hariri. Hezbollah murdered Hariri’s father, Rafic in 2005.

In recent years, Riyadh has grown tired of backing a Lebanon that continues to be swallowed by Hezbollah. Hezbollah maintains an illegal terrorist army in Lebanon with 150,000 rockets, undermines Lebanon’s foreign policy, conducts its own policies, has its own communications network and in many ways is more powerful than the state.

Israel is conducting a national readiness drill this week. Starting Sunday, Home Front Command and the National Emergency Authority (RAHEL) are holding a weeklong drill that simulates a large-scale war in which civilians may be evacuated from northern border communities in response to rocket barrages from Hezbollah, according to reports.
Posted by: Frank G || 11/01/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah



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