Democrats 1861: If Republicans ONLY stopped trying to enforce federal Law in the south the violence will end
Democrats 1957: If Republicans ONLY stopped trying to enforce federal law in Arkansas there would be no violence.
Democrats 2025 If Republicans ONLY stopped enforcing federal immigration law in LA there would be no riots.
Oh and in all three cases it involved Democrats flying non-US flags, Confederate the first two times, Mexican and for some reason Palestinian now.
Closing thought: Nothing says “organic protests not paid for or organized by Democrats & Democrat NGO’s like having to pass out American flags to change the bad optics of the first few nights.
Will someone please ask all these idiots who are cheering violence against Tesla cars and Tesla owners, who are by and large rich leftists if they REALLY want to normalize political violence in a country when a very large amount of their political foes are armed?
One of the dumbest things POTUS 46 Mr. Autopen did was not allow Elon Musk to save the Astronauts who were stranded in the space station in orbit.
Will somebody ask the Democrats what the plan was if Kamala won? If Musk was going to be persona-non-grata and Boeing wasn’t able to get the job done how were the Astronauts going to get down?
By not letting Musk do it was Biden was still in office their rescue became a TRUMP success and a Biden/Democrat failure instead of it being an AMERICAN success.
Idiots.
You don’t have to go far on the net or the media to see leftists denouncing Chuck Schumer as the greatest traitor since Judas for voting for cloture on the GOP budget.
Fetterman of Pennsylvania, who already announced he would vote for cloture was already pissing off Democrats for his support of Israel that he shares with Schumer so hitting him would be redundant but Schumer, he was a new and apparently legit target.
Jon Stewart did a huge piece on Schumer first acting tough then folding on a shutdown and in that piece he noted that the GOP needed 8 votes to stop a Democrat filibuster.
Yet while Stewart named and shamed Schumer he seems to be weak on his math as Schumer and Fetterman only brought the GOP vote to 53 as Rand Paul did not support the the bill leaving the GOP still seven votes short.
This proved not to be a problem as Gillibrand Schumer’s fellow Democrat senator from NY, Both NH Democrat Senators Hassan and Shaheen (who is retiring), Cortez-Matso of Nevada , Schatz of Hawaii, Peters of Michigan, Angus King of Maine an independent caucusing with Democrats) and Dick Durbin (Illinois) the Democrat Whip and #2 Dem in the Senate.
Yet neither Stewart nor any of the other leftists screaming bloody murder online or on the air seem to have a word to say about any of them?
I wonder why?
Speaking of Fetterman he asked a rather practical question concerning cloture, what’s the endgame?
If the government shuts down and the Trump administration gets the right to furlough all the Federal workers (and trust me he wasn’t about to close national parks like Obama did) that he wanted to what is the endgame? What do Democrats do next? Unlike the republican who like the idea of a smaller government Dems love big government.
What was the plan? Was there a plan? Was there a way out?
Nobody on the left seems to have an answer to this question and none of the people screaming for King Chuckie’s head seem to have one either.
Finally while the left keeps running to court to try to slow Donald Trump advance through the government he runs nobody seems to be asking the single most obvious question concerning this tactic.
Right now left is judge shopping trying to curtail the power of the president in the knowledge that they will have to face a Supreme Court which only has 3 secure Democrat votes, perhaps 4 with John Roberts.
What happens in 4 to 12 years when the Democrats come back to power and the GOP decides to judge shop to stop them? What happens when those cases go to a Supreme Court that Donald Trump and/or JD Vance had 4-12 years naming members to?
“Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” Fyodor Dostoevsky.
“‘Many are the strange chances of the world,” said Mithrandir, “and help shall oft come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.'” The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien.
A blockbuster story by the Wall Street Journal last week laid bare what most readers of Da Tech Guy have known since 2019. That Joe Biden was senile and in not in any way able to serve as president.
The mainstream media, which claims to be the protector of the public and the teller of the truth, either ignored, minimized, or on occasion, even verbally attacked people who claimed otherwise.
We were right, they were wrong.
The optics and stakes are different in Chicago, and in one way, the stakes are higher, as opposed to the Biden so-called presidency. Because Brandon Johnson, who was a defund the police radical in 2020, is mayor of Chicago and he’s ultimately in charge of public safety 2.7 million Chicagoans.
And Johnson minimizes criminality. But he maximizes racial discord, frequently turning criticism of him as a bigoted attack.
After a mini-riot last year, which apologists call “street takeovers,” Branjo dismissed the lawlessness. “They’re young, sometimes they make silly decisions,” he said. Johnson also stressed that it was wrong to “demonize” these real-life droogs.
The Wall Street Journal says Johnson is America’s worst mayor.
Prior to his election as mayor, Johnson was Cook County board commissioner, which is a part-time job. The board is a rubber-stamp body for Cook County Board president, Boss Toni Preckwinkle, the chair of the Cook County Regular Democratic Organization, aka, the Chicago Machine.
Johnson was also a longtime paid organizer–and that means radical activist–for the far-left Chicago Teachers Union. It was their money–and their door-knockers–who put Branjo into the mayor’s office.
Yesterday, I saw this X post from former Chicago Tribune columnist, Eric Zorn, a liberal.
What an embarrassing failure @ChicagosMayor has turned out to be. This is shamefully hamhanded and uncollaborative.
Two days ago, in a classic Friday news dump stunt–and five days before Christmas–the Board of Education, all of whom were recently named by Johnson to replace the other members Johnson named, fired Chicago Public Schools CPO Pedro Martinez. That old board refused to fire Martinez, a Lori Lightfoot holdeover, because he stood his ground by refusing to take out a “payday” loan to pay for big raises for Chicago Teachers Union members.
Next month, per a new state law, a new board replaces the not-so-old board.
If Zorn warned about Johnson shilling for the Chicago Teachers Union over the needs of Chicagoans, I somehow missed it. I don’t recall a single mainstream, meaning liberal, Chicago journalist sounding the alarm that a leftist fox would soon be guarding the henhouse.
However, many Chicagoans, most of whom likely voted for Johnson’s moderate opponent, Paul Vallas, saw this disaster coming. There just were not enough of them to prevent this fiasco.
Martinez was fired Friday night, but he may stick around for six more months.
The national media didn’t do its job vetting a sick old man running for president. And it mostly ignored Senile Joe’s many senior moments.
The Chicago media looked the other way as Branjo successfully campaigned for mayor.
But the warning signs were obvious.
A Chicago alderwoman, Silvana Tabares, summed up Johnson and his Board of Education debacle perfectly.
“You’re not just firing a CEO. You are intentionally clearing a way to saddle taxpayers with billions in costs, and the district and yourselves personally with costly litigation,” the alderwoman said. “You are being used. The mayor is a walking conflict of interest.”
I saw it coming and so did many others: Johnson is indeed a walking conflict of interest.
The Chicago media is an embarrassing failure.
Which brings me to this point: Is the local media in other towns and cities as bad as it is in Chicago?
Are these “guardians,” like Brandon Johnson, in fact foxes guarding the hen houses?
In case you somehow missed it, in 2019, on the night before a polar vortex of bitterly cold temperatures hit Chicago, at 1:00am on the Near North Side, the onetime Empire actor claimed that two men yelling, “This is MAGA country” poured bleach on him and put a noose around his neck after his visit to a Subway restaurant.
As soon as I heard about the “attack,” I had my doubts. So did the Chicago Police.
What really happened is that Smollett, who is also a rapper, paid two Nigerian brothers to stage the attack.
A few weeks later, Cook County’s so-called prosecutor, State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, dropped all of the hoax-related charges against Smollett–without an admission of guilt from Smollett. His $10,000 bond was forfeited.
The uproar forced Foxx to appoint a special prosecutor, tough-as-nails former US Attorney Dan Webb, to try the case against Smollett, and a jury here in Cook County found him guilty–he was sentenced to five months in prison. But Smollett served only a few days of that sentence after being released until his appeal played out.
Keep in mind that many CPD man-hours were wasted as cops, under pressure from police brass, no doubt, investigated the “crime” against Smollett.
Tina Tchen. a former top aide to Barack Obama, called Foxx on behalf of Smollett’s family to work out a deal.
Foxx despises the Smollett millstone around her neck, because she believes they diminish her so-called accomplishments in office. She leaves office after eight years of catch-and-release “prosecution” that has made Chicago and its inner suburbs a worse place to live. Foxx sadly, wasn’t voted out, she chose not to run for a third term.
Foxx should be best remembered for enabling of criminals, but since the Smollett case reignited interest in her botched handling of his crimes, something that will haunt her forever.
When Foxx dies and her obituaries are published, the Smollett case will be the lead.
Good.
Kim Foxx sucked as a prosecutor, and because of Smollett, she’ll be remembered as incompetent. And she is–on so many levels.
There is at least some justice in this world.
John Ruberry regularly blogs at Marathon Pundit from suburban Cook County.
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