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-Great Cultural Revolution
Liberal city's 'disgraceful' move before baseball's opening day has activists furious
[FoxNews] Denver removes homeless camps near Coors Field before Colorado Rockies opening day.
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/30/2023 06:56 || Comments || Link || [13 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  It's all about signaling never about fixing stuff for the usual suspects.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/30/2023 8:57 Comments || Top||

#2  The homeless were rounded up ahead of a Bidet visit somewhere. The MSM didn't screech about that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/30/2023 9:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember the Desantis plane, dropping off illegals at Martha's Vineyard last year? The MSM screeched for two days, then went silent when they were all rounded up and sent to the old Otis AFB in Sandwich, MA.
Posted by: Raj || 03/30/2023 9:56 Comments || Top||

#4  So it can be done.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2023 11:00 Comments || Top||

#5  Let's convert the stadium into a homeless camp and play baseball in the street like when we were kids. Funny, I don't remember having homeless camps way back when.
Posted by: SteveS || 03/30/2023 11:33 Comments || Top||

#6  ^ Over times past there were Hoovervilles, Okie encampments during the dustbowl and always Skid Row.

What we did not have is them in your face downtown.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/30/2023 11:35 Comments || Top||

#7  San Diego PD is evicting/ticketing those who have made the streets and sidewalks in Gaslamp Quarter and East Village their own personal shitholes prior to Padres' Opening Day.

Hep A outbreak a couple years ago should've been the lesson to get the tent cities under control
Posted by: Frank G || 03/30/2023 11:44 Comments || Top||

#8  I suspect that the goal is to protect the disadvantaged from Colorado Rockies baseball.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/30/2023 12:03 Comments || Top||

#9  Loony liberal mayors all across the country using the same playbook:

San Diego police clear downtown homeless encampments as city prepares for Padres opening day

Sweeping the problem under the rug but soon enough the dirt will be right back on the sidewalks.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/30/2023 12:40 Comments || Top||

#10  The city of Denver is facing criticism from homeless advocates

Proving that they are retards. Stadium has a lot of park and ride to get fans into the seats. Hundreds if not thousands of vehicle break ins would be impossible to sweep under the rug, as you say.

Now that I mention it, perhaps they should have been left to camp. Couple goes and spends couple hundred on a day at the game, and it smells like shit. In fact, it smells so bad it is the conversation instead of the game, only to get off the bus where they parked and find their vehicle broken into, everything loose plus the stereo gone. Have that conversation.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2023 13:25 Comments || Top||

#11  The usual suspects in San Diego are telling us we need more housing. No, we don't. We need tent cities out in the boondocks surround by concertina wire to keep the bums from moving back to our sidewalks.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 03/30/2023 13:35 Comments || Top||

#12  San Diego has more homeless now than ever.The City of San diego gave homeless vouchers for motels in El Cajon (County). Now the mayor of El Cajon is pissed.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 03/30/2023 14:11 Comments || Top||

#13  Sure am glad they moved last year's All Star game away from racist Atlanta to enlightened, liberal Denver...???
Posted by: Tom || 03/30/2023 15:23 Comments || Top||

#14  My sister lives a block and a half from Coors field. You can't go a block without seeing homeless people accosting you or tents on corners. I don't even visit anymore because of it.

I know local businesses and people have complained about the homeless but nothing is done. A thriving business district is dying because businesses and people are starting to move out. Her neighbor had someone shit on their front doorstep. Not a place I will visit and spend my money on.
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/30/2023 16:20 Comments || Top||

#15  If the stars aligned I'd stop by Coors Field and catch a game because I like the stadium and atmosphere. I think Jimenez was still on the pitching roster last time that happened.

From what I've heard of Denver in general, and this area specifically, not for free all-you-can-handle Rocky Dogs and Beer.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2023 17:11 Comments || Top||

#16  always Skid Row.

Eh?
Posted by: Skidmark || 03/30/2023 23:02 Comments || Top||


Africa Subsaharan
Ghana’s Speaker Slams US Vice President Kamala Harris For Canvassing Gay Rights
[PUBLISH.TWITTER] Because that's the most important Africa faces today.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


#2  ...its always easy to spend other peoples money.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 03/30/2023 7:54 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ especially when you have already stolen the local economy blind.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/30/2023 7:59 Comments || Top||

#4  Just send her to places that really really like school buses.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/30/2023 10:08 Comments || Top||

#5  So let me get this straight...

She's over there to buy a bunch of Africans and force her culture on the locals.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2023 10:09 Comments || Top||

#6  /\ That has been attempted a time or two previously. The results do not appear to be promising, bit don't regional history stop you.
Posted by: Besoeker || 03/30/2023 10:41 Comments || Top||

#7  “This time it’ll be different.”
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/30/2023 20:25 Comments || Top||

#8  "Fweedum!"
Posted by: Frank G || 03/30/2023 20:30 Comments || Top||

#9  Was Kamala tracking her great-grandfather's slave trade footsteps?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/30/2023 23:14 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ "Hi, Honey. I'm home. Guess what I bought at the market!"
Posted by: SteveS || 03/30/2023 23:45 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
Lindsey Graham tells @JesseBWatters that he had no idea what is in the Restrict Act, Patriot Act 2.0 he co-sponsors
[Twitter/Fox]
Term-limits Please!

Posted by: 3dc || 03/30/2023 03:08 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life,

#1  That tells you pretty much all you need to know about much of the GOP.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/30/2023 6:06 Comments || Top||

#2  DDMan, and all of the swamp. and the deep state, both of which can claim Graham as a charter member.
Posted by: AlanC || 03/30/2023 11:39 Comments || Top||

#3  He knows exactly what is in the bill. He is obviously lying. It is his MO, when his hand is caught in the cookie jar.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/30/2023 12:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Daughter was asking me if TikTok is going to be banned and why.

As best I could with a young adult keeping her head out of the fog: its not that information is being harvested by these organizations. If that were the case, she says, then all these apps which do that would get the same treatment. Exactly. They don't care the information is loose, on the contrary they want more, they just want it funneled into their hard drives.

If it was really about punishing China, she states, we would let them continue watching our cringe TikToks until they are eating Tide Pods too and their nuclear safety technicians were dancing instead of doing their job.
-wipes tear from eye-

That nice lady at the store isn't handing out free cheese samples for you, is she? If its free you are the products.
She's gauging response to the cheese, and whether to carry it and how much right?
Right. Imagine that on a much larger scale.

Thank you Lindsey. Thank you for making my point. Guess what news topic gets brought up at dinner tonight.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2023 14:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Most damage to our republic is done by politicians desperate to be seen "doing something" about "the current thing."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/30/2023 14:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Please, please, please, for the sake of all of us South Carolinians, someone with some name recognition/chance of winning primary this man in 2026.
Posted by: Tom || 03/30/2023 15:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Best sales pitch I've heard is TikTok should be banned because it is responsible for the artillery ammo shortage in Ukraine.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 03/30/2023 16:12 Comments || Top||

#8  Fire him into the sun please
Posted by: DarthVader || 03/30/2023 16:36 Comments || Top||


Biden White House silent on IRS visiting 'Twitter Files' reporter Matt Taibbi
[NYPOST] The White House declined to comment Wednesday on an IRS
...the Internal Revenue Service; that office of the United States government that collects taxes and persecutes the regime's political enemies...
agent’s visit to journalist Matt Taibbi’s home on the same day that he testified to a House subcommittee investigating the "weaponization" of government.

The surprise March 9 door-knock came as the "Twitter Files" collaborator described his reporting on how the government pressured social media platforms to censor online speech.

The Post asked at the first White House press briefing since the news of the visit broke Monday about whether the visit was "part of a campaign to harass or intimidate [Taibbi] related to his journalism."

White House front man John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the National Security Council, declined to provide a substantive reply.

"I’m afraid I’m going to have to refer you to the IRS," he said succinctly.

"Federal law prohibits the IRS from commenting on individual taxpayer matters," front man Robert Marvin told The Post.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, whose department includes the IRS, also was pressed for answers Wednesday by House politicians.

Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Biden's Brown Shirts.
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 03/30/2023 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  N'Obama pulled this stunt with queen scumbag Lois Lerner, and now OBiden is doing the same. Gee, surely it's correlation and not causation.
Posted by: DooDahMan || 03/30/2023 6:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Everybody does their John Banner imitation.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/30/2023 10:03 Comments || Top||

#4  "Left a note on the door" seems like a peculiar move for an outfit that usually communicates via certified mail.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 03/30/2023 10:16 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Adams backs Heastie despite speaker opposing charters, bail reform
[NYPOST] Because politix is politix.
Mayor Eric Adams praised Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie Wednesday — despite a new Post poll showing the power broker’s opposition to expanding city charter schools and rolling back the state’s lenient bail law goes against voters in his own Bronx district.

"The speaker, I find the speaker to be extremely conscientious," Adams said when asked about the McLaughlin & Associates survey, which found that 68% of likely voters in Heastie’s district — which covers the neighborhoods of Williamsbridge, Eastchester and Wakefield — support Gov. Kathy Hochul’s budget proposal to remove the cap on charters in the city and expand them statewide.

"I think he has served his constituency well," Adams went on. "He has been serving for several years. He served when I was there. I had a great meeting when I was in Albany with him and I think he’s a great politician."

However,
if you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning...
Hizzoner grew noticeably silent when a Post news hound followed up: "Why would he go against the will of his voters in this case? That was the question."

The poll also found that most respondents said that crime was the issue they were most concerned about, with 57% favoring Hochul’s proposal to allow judges to use greater discretion when it comes to setting bail for dangerous suspects.

Heastie or his caucus’ campaign committee have received nearly $1.5 million in donations from powerful teachers’ unions, which oppose the publicly-funded, privately-run schools that have proliferated in the five boroughs and been credited for increased test scores among minority students while operating at a fraction of the cost of public schools.

The speaker has also repeatedly claimed that crime is also up in states with no bail reform while stating his opposition to changing the controversial 2019 measure, which eliminated cash bail in all but the most serious criminal cases as a way to prevent impoverished defendants from languishing on Riker’s Island ahead of their trials.
Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jails are for political prisoners not for proles.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/30/2023 10:04 Comments || Top||


Why Carl Heastie ignores what his voters want on crime and charter schools
[NYPOST] One of the reasons people are cynical about politics is because their elected representatives show more allegiance to their personal interests and lobbyists than their own constituents.
Yet their constituents keep voting them in. Funny, that.
Too many politicians are like an abusive partner who swears it’ll be different this time if we just give him or her one more chance.

It’s abundantly clear what the citizens in New York state Assemblyman Carl Heastie’s district have advocated for, but Heastie’s window into the desires of the people he represents has been replaced with a mirror.

In a McLaughlin & Associates poll commissioned by The Post within Heastie’s northern Bronx district, out of the 400 likely voters surveyed last week, 62% said they support charters, and 68% indicated an interest in increasing the number of charter schools.

Many of the poll respondents also stated that crime is the top issue in their community, and 64% approve of requiring anyone committing a crime with a gun to be held without bail.

Posted by: Fred || 03/30/2023 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  For some strange reason as soon as an elected person steps into the US capital they experience sudden brain damage.
Posted by: Mad Eye Omeretch7959 || 03/30/2023 1:17 Comments || Top||

#2  As a NY State legislator, he’ll be commuting to Albany, not DC.
Posted by: trailing wife || 03/30/2023 1:53 Comments || Top||

#3  If you look at his bank accounts, you will find evidence of his true constituents.
Posted by: Super Hose || 03/30/2023 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  DC isn't the only swamp. Albany has a long and storied history or swamp monsters.

Posted by: AlanC || 03/30/2023 11:46 Comments || Top||

#5  "Yet their constituents (Dominion) keep voting them in. Funny, that." it is funny but not amusing...
Posted by: 746 || 03/30/2023 19:47 Comments || Top||



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