Say his name: Jai’mani Amir Rivera. The 7-year-old was allegedly murdered in Chicago by a teen who officials say cut off his ankle monitor

Posted: June 23, 2024 by John Ruberry in crime, News/opinion, opinion/news, politics
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By John Ruberry

The biggest news story in Chicago at the end of last week was the vandalism of Chicago’s iconic Buckingham Fountain by pro-Hamas protesters. 

That’s tragic, because the more important news was the arrest of 16-year-old Raysean Comer, who according to court records allegedly shot to death a 7-year-old, Jai’mani Amir Rivera, on Chicago’s West Side. Rivera had just completed first grade. The murder occurred about a mile from the United Center, where the Democratic National Convention will be held later this summer.

Say his name: Jai’mani Amir Rivera.

Illinois’ governor, J.B. Pritzker, a likely 2028 presidential candidate–and possibly even this year–was the main catalyst for bringing the DNC to Chicago.

Again, according to court records as well as the essential CWB Chicago site, Comer was on pre-trial release, but under electronic monitoring, for alleged aggravated battery and being in possession of a stolen automobile. Two weeks ago, according to local officials, Comer cut off his ankle monitor. 

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is in charge of the county electronic monitoring program.

Hey Dart! Did you try to find Comer after he removed his ankle monitor?

Back to Pritzker.

With great fanfare in response to the George Floyd murder–the Chicago Democrat signed the SAFE-T Act into law–it eliminates cash bail throughout Illinois. It took effect last autumn. 

Comer is now locked up in Cook County Jail. But he’s the 14th person in Chicago this year, according to CWB Chicago, who is accused of shooting, attempting to shoot, or killing someone while on pretrial release. 

Hey Jackass, another great Chicago site, notes that last week was a very bloody one. “Final tally for the week of 6/16 – 6/22: 125 people shot, 24 fatally,” Hey Jackass posted Sunday morning on X. “The last time #Chicago tallied at least 125 shot in a single week was 9/26/21 – 10/2/21 with 23 killed, 102 wounded.”

Violent crime is increasing in Chicago, despite false assurances otherwise. Murders, for now, being an exception. As I’ve noted earlier here at DTG, Pritzker, and Chicago’s leftist mayor, Brandon Johnson, scored a lucky break when a court challenge delayed implementation of the SAFE-T Act. Summer is the most violent season in Chicago, and the summer of 2024, as we know, has started off badly in terms of public safety. 

So far this year, according to Larry Snelling, Chicago’s police superintendant, 127 youths have been shot. And seventeen of them have died.

Chicago’s violent crime epidemic pre-dates the SAFE-T Act. Eight years ago, a George Soros-funded catch-and-release prosecutor, Kim Foxx, was elected as Cook County’s state’s attorney. She chose not to run for a third term, her successor will be an improvement.

Friday night, the Chicago Police Department held a press conference announcing the arrest of Comer. It was one of those “all-hands-on-deck” events. Perhaps they were out of town or otherwise busy, but three people were noticeably absent at the presser: Foxx, Dart, and Mayor Brandon Johnson. Chicago’s mayor spoke favorably of the Defund the Police movement in 2020, and he’s the most egregious minimizer of crime in his city.

The SAFE-T Act is a monumental failure, and it needs to be repealed.

If Pritzker runs for president, law-and-order Americans–still a majority in this country–needs to tell everyone else that he signed the SAFE-T Act into law. Or better yet, chant “SAFE-T Act!”

Johnson needs to be reminded that his most important duty is to protect the lives of 2.7 million Chicagoans. His dismissal of youth violence as kids doing “silly things” makes things worse.

Good riddance to Foxx.

Say his name: Jai’mani Amir Rivera.

There is a GoFundMe page dedicated to covering Rivera’s funeral expenses. Click here to donate.

John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit.

I Don’t Know Art But I Know What I Don’t Like

Posted: June 23, 2024 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, middle east
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And that’s spending Hundreds of Millions of Dollars and putting our troops in harms way in a war zone to try to boost Biden’s increasingly poor prospects in Michigan.

The only thing more pathetic than them doing this type of “performance art” for votes is the acknowledgement or at least the assumption that their voters are stupid enough to fall for it.

The Biden Admin and whoever is paying them off has been one of the most destructive to America and Americans that I’ve seen in my lifetime, and I lived through the Carter and Johnson years.

Under the Fedora Reality edition: WP Owner to Bezos to Florida, CNN to Basement, Hate Crime Supply and Demand, Electric Car supply & Demand and an Grift as old as Stonehenge

Posted: June 22, 2024 by datechguy in Uncategorized

I was reading a piece about the potential sale of the money losing Washington Post when I noticed something I had missed: (emphasis mine)

Anyone who has paid much attention to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos over the years knows that he isn’t afraid to shut down something that isn’t working. In 2015, Amazon pulled the plug on its Fire smartphone, after announcing a $170 million writedown on unsold devices. In 2019, Bezos finalized a divorce from his wife of 25 years. In 2022, Amazon announced it would close down all 68 of its brick-and-mortar bookstores and retail shops. In 2023, Amazon discontinued its Amazon Smile program that let customers direct a portion of their purchases to charity. Earlier this year, Bezos announced he was ending his residency in the state of Washington after nearly 30 years, and moving to Florida. 

“Embrace failures” is part of Amazon’s “Day 1 culture,” along with “high-velocity decision-making.” Implicit in that is recognizing when something is not working and isn’t worth keeping trying to get working, rather than indefinitely pretending that sometime in the future it will start working. 

This is how bad the difference between blue and red states are, that ultra rich ultra liberals don’t want to live in ultra blue states anymore. That old villain reality is kicking in.

On the plus side for the Washington Post CNN is doing much worse:

Throughout the week of June 10, CNN was only able to attract an average of 396,000 viewers throughout the total day.

That is astonishing.

During its dreadful primetime hours, CNN dropped below 500,000 total viewers for the week to a pathetic average of just 477,000.

This is apparently what happens when you decide to abandon straight news and decide to fight for the Nevertrump niche with MSNBC. Nolte sums up the reality nicely:

It’s one thing to cast the truth aside and revel in your Orange Man Bad hatred when the economy is booming…It’s one thing to enjoy the MSNBC and CNN lies and hoaxes aimed at the MAGAtards when the world’s at peace, gas costs $2.35 a gallon, and eggs are 99 cents a dozen…All that CNN and MSNBC insanity and dishonesty is pure entertainment when illegals aren’t flooding your city and your mortgage hasn’t doubled…

Apparently the nevertrump market can’t support both CNN & MSNBC as the niche simply isn’t big enough, darn that nasty reality!

As one person put it:

A while back I covered a hate crime hoax in the next town during the Obama years that went national until it fell apart (no apologies of course and no national coverage of the reverse). Instapundit when writing about the hoaxes notes that the demand for hate crimes exceeds the supply now there is a new documentary about the phenom titled Demand for Hate:

They focus on a hate hoax out of UVA, Hollywood in Toto notes the reaction and the key line of the picture:

The filmmakers tried to interview Zyahna Bryant, the activist who helped rally the Left against Bettinger, UVA officials and University President James Ryan to glean their side of the story.

They all declined. Their silence speaks volumes. So does the lawsuit that gives the film a marginally happy ending.

“Demand for Hate” offers a single quote to sum it all up, courtesy of Jim Bacon from The Jefferson Council.

“There’s not enough racism to go around.”

That’s the reality, it’s also why activists end up going after No U-Turn Signs to keep things rolling.

Reality is also hitting automakers like Ford who with the Biden admin’s pushing spent a lot of money on electric car are finding that like the proverbial dog who doesn’t like the dog food people don’t want electric cars:

Slowing demand for Ford’s F-150 Lightning electric pickup truck is delaying the start of full production at the company’s new West Tennessee factory and pushing vehicle deliveries to dealers until early 2026, according to the state senator representing the community home to the new facility.

State Sen. Page Walley, a Savannah Republican, told the Lookout his understanding is that full production of the truck at the BlueOval City campus in Stanton was pushed back earlier this year by nine months from its initially scheduled full production start date.

Based on “what’s happening, with (Ford’s) read on the economy,” the company might need “a little bit longer runway” before full production takes off, Walley said. 

The real problem is that people who actually try electric cars aren’t all that enthused:

In general, more consumers are willing to consider buying an EV for their next car, with 38 percent of non-EV owners planning on buying a plug-in hybrid or full battery electric vehicle for their next purchase—a slight increase from 37 percent in 2022, according to Automotive News. Still, that dwarfs the number of Americans who will likely buy a combustion engine vehicle for their next car.  

Even more surprising was the number of EV owners who plan on going back to gas for their next car. According to McKinsey, 46 percent of EV drivers in the U.S. said they’re likely to go back to a traditional engine in their next vehicl

In a bad economy the reality of getting from one place to another trumps false green dreams.

It’s been rather funny watching the reaction of the ultra leftist “just stop oil” campaign to the anger over their defacing Stonehenge one of the key historical sites of the world.

They can’t seem to understand why people are so upset at what they did when the world as the claim is at stake:

I did give an explanation to their question

You might recall Rush Limbaugh’s “Al Gore Doomsday Clock” which ran out about 7 years ago Instapundit linked to the last word on this yesterday:

Same grift as a TV preacher, different marks.

By This Time Next Week the Issue of Joe Biden Will be Decided: Update Van Jones Agrees

Posted: June 21, 2024 by datechguy in election 2024, elections, politics
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Kananga: Solitaire, why? I treated you well. You lacked for nothing.

Solitaire: I don’t understand what you…

Kananga: [interrupting] Mr. Bond’s watch, my dear. I gave you every break possible. You had a 50-50 chance. You weren’t even close.

Solitaire: I had no choice. Please believe me. The cards.

Live and Let Die 1973

Today is Friday June 21. In six days President Joe Biden will meet President Donald Trump in what I suspect will be the only debate between the pair of them before election day. I’m typing this post at 8:54 AM EST a week before the day after the debate and I submit and suggest by this time next week the fate of Joe Biden will be decided.

By this I don’t mean the result of an election between President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, I mean by this time next week the people who are actually running this government will decide if they will allow Joe Biden to remain on the ballot.

Consider, Joe Biden has been given every possible advantage for this debate even to the point of having one of the people who help propagate hoaxes about Trump being one of the two moderators. Everything from the choice of venue, to the lack of an audience to even the mics being controlled by the moderators favors Joe Biden.

Furthermore the mainstream media will without a doubt elevate and exaggerate their description of Biden’s performance well beyond any level he manages to achieve.

But in the end no matter what is said in public privately if Joe Biden with all of these advantages is unable to preform to a level that can convince the powers behind his throne that the election can be kept within the margin of fraud he will be gone.

There would be many ways to “persuade” him to step aside. Maybe the press will “suddenly” discover evidence of corruption that they consider credible, or maybe the justice department will suddenly decide that that old Joe IS competent to stand trial or maybe they will go after the rest of his family that has been drawing water from the well all his political life. Or maybe they’ll go all in on Hunter to put him away for good.

Joe Biden could be told that any or all of those things are likely to happen if he stays in the race. The Biden family knows that none of these things would be hard as they only require people to tell the truth and/or follow the law

They could even have his doctor declare him medically unfit, again that would be really easy as it would be the truth and could even be the ground for not pursuing all these other possibilities as he would be unfit to stand trial.

And if none of these tactics shook his resolve, well he IS an old man maybe he’ll die from a fall or even “natural” causes. At his age that would be at least plausible and the left would play the sympathy card to be used by whoever they (not the voters of course) choose to replace him on the ticket with. Oh and if you think the left is not capable of this, you have not been paying attention these last few years.

This is what is on the line here for Joe Biden in the debate. You and I may not know what decision the powers that be have made but this time next week his fate will be decided and don’t think for one moment that the wheels are not all ready in place to execute whatever plan they may decide on right now.

Update: Van Jones Agrees

“This is the entire election, as far as I’m concerned. The entire world will be watching,” Jones said Thursday in an interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta. “If you are a carbon-based life form, you’re going to be watching. If you’ve got a functioning brain stem, you’re going to be watching.”

“Because, if Biden goes out there and messes up, it’s game over. If he walks out there, and a week later he’s lower in the polls, it’s panic in the party,” he continued. “But if he goes in there and he can handle himself against Donald Trump — a runaway train, a locomotive, a raging bull — then this guy deserves another shot to be president, because that is tough.”

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