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Monday, Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson opened his show by giving President Donald Trump’s speech at Mount Rushmore in South Dakota high marks. He then pointed to the Democrat backlash and concluded that Democrats and their allies in the media hate the country.
He alluded to remarks made by presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) to bolster that point. Carlson then posed the question: Could the left in America lead a country that it hates?
“So what to make of all of this,” Carlson said. “It’s long been considered out-of-bounds to question a person’s patriotism. It’s a very strong charge, and we try not ever to make it. But in the face of all of this, the conclusion can’t be avoided — these people actually hate America. There’s no longer a question about that. And yet paradoxically, at the same time, they desperately want to control America more than anything. And that leads to the most basic of all questions: Can you really lead a country that you hate? Ask yourself, what kind of parent would you be if you hated your children?”
“What kind of officer would you make if you didn’t care about your troops?” he continued. “It would be awful. The results would be ugly. It would not work. Loving the people you lead, caring deeply about them is the basic prerequisite of leadership. The leaders of today’s Democratic Party do not. They despise this country. They have said so. They continue to. That is shocking, but it is also disqualifying. We cannot let them run this nation because they hate it. Imagine what they would do to it.”
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The pandemic has decimated the lives of workers across the country. The national unemployment rate currently stands at roughly 15 percent as compared to only 3.5 percent last May. In Illinois, at the end of May, unemployment rose to 14.7 percent statewide, compared to 3.5 percent last May, totaling 738,500 lost jobs. In the Chicago region, which includes the city of Chicago and large suburbs like Naperville, unemployment surpassed the state total, reaching 15.4 percent compared to 3.3 percent last year.In an effort to defuse opposition to this homicidal return to work campaign, the Pritzker administration announced a $900 Million Package Community and Business Grant Programs for Illinois. Similarly, City of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, also a Democrat, is implementing a $1.13 billion COVID-19 grant program. Both programs are funded by federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) act, which transferred trillions to the stock market while only providing a pittance for social relief.
Washington Post:
Only 17 of 20 Most Violent Cities Are Run by Democrats, so Trump Is Wrong
29 Jun 20201,273
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The Washington
Post declared it has disproven President Donald Trump’s claim
that “the 20 most dangerous cities are Democrat-run” by affirming that 17 of
the 20 most violent have Democrat mayors.
Columnist
Philip Bump began by
quoting Trump claiming “the 20 most dangerous [cities] are Democrat-run”:
Trump
has repeatedly lifted up a statistical factoid, as he did during an event at
the White House on Wednesday. “You hear about certain places like Chicago and
you hear about what’s going on in Detroit and other — other cities, all
Democrat run,” he said. “Every one of them is Democrat run. Twenty out of 20.
The 20 worst, the 20 most dangerous are Democrat run.”
Bump
explained, “It’s not clear how Trump is defining ‘most dangerous’ in this
context. So let’s look at two related sets of data compiled by the FBI: most
violent crime and most violent crime per capita.”
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SUPREMACY SANCTUARY CITIES WHERE ILLEGALS ARE FIRST IN LINE FOR EVERYTHING.
In
his analysis, Bump pointed to an FBI list of the 20 cities with the most
violent crime, the top 10 of which all have Democrat mayors:
1. New York
2. Los Angeles
3. Chicago
4. Houston
5. Philadelphia
6. Memphis
7. Detroit
8. Dallas
9. Phoenix
10.Baltimore
Out
of the next ten cities, two (San Antonio and Las Vegas) have independent
mayors, and one (Jacksonville) has a Republican. Bump goes further,
listing the top 20 cities with the most violent crime “per 10,000” people. In
this list, only one city lacks a Democrat mayor, and that is Springfield,
Missouri.
So
on the straightforward list of most violent cities, 17 of 20 have a Democrat
mayor. For incidents per 10,000 people, 19 out of the top 20 have a Democrat
mayor.
Bump
cedes that Trump is only “slightly wrong” before launching into a discourse on
why making this comparison means nothing, anyway. “in fairness, it actually
doesn’t matter that four of the 32 cities listed above have non-Democratic
mayors,” he writes, “because it doesn’t really matter that the other mayors are
Democrats.”
“Since
there’s a correlation between size and amount of crime and between size and
propensity to vote Democratic, it’s problematic to draw a causal relationship
between crime and Democratic leadership,” he argues — responding to an
implication that Trump’s quote never makes explicit.
“It
may be the case that cities with more crime are more likely to have Democratic
leaders,” Bump concedes. “To a large extent, of course, Trump isn’t really
trying to make a point beyond ‘cities and Democrats are scary’” — apparently
for cynical electoral purposes, according to the columnist.
AWR Hawkins
is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the
writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter
focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the
political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him
at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.
ILLINOIS FALLS TO LA RAZA MAYHEM…. Apparently Illinois did not benefit from 8 years of Barack Obama’s sabotage of Homeland security to build his LA RAZA base of Mexicans
“Illinois is a state full of illegal aliens. One in seven Illinoisans are immigrants, with 450,000 official illegals. One point two million jobs are taken by illegals in Illinois. This is one of the most heavily invaded states in the Union.” --- Timothy Birdnow
THE BANKSTER FUNDED DEMOCRAT PARTY: SERVANTS OF THE LA RAZA MEXICAN WELFARE STATE ON THE AMERICAN WORKERS’ BACKS!
“The Democrats had abandoned their working class base to chase what they pretended was a racial group when what they were actually chasing was the momentum of unlimited migration”. DANIEL GREENFIELD / FRONT PAGE MAGAZINE
ILLINOIS FALLS TO LA RAZA MAYHEM…. Apparently Illinois did not benefit from 8 years of Barack Obama’s sabotage of Homeland security to build his LA RAZA base of Mexicans
“Illinois is a state full of illegal aliens. One in seven Illinoisans are immigrants, with 450,000 official illegals. One point two million jobs are taken by illegals in Illinois. This is one of the most heavily invaded states in the Union.” --- Timothy Birdnow
Illinois and Chicago offer paltry COVID-19 assistance program to residents
7 July 2020
As the number of Illinois COVID-19 cases rise, Governor J.B. Pritzker, a Democrat, has moved the state into phase 4 of the “Restore Illinois” plan. The new development eases phase 3 restrictions, allowing previously halted activities and businesses to resume with rules such as 50 percent maximum capacity or less, social distancing measures, and mandatory masks.
COVID-19 cases are growing out of control across the United States, with over 130,000 deaths. Despite Illinois sharing the trend with a sharp growth in new cases, the state is reducing social distancing measures. According to Worldometer, the lowest 7-day-average cases of COVID-19 in Illinois was 602 on June 18. This week, Illinois’s 7-day-average increased to 800 and the rate of infection will only grow as social distancing measures are relaxed without any measures for containment.
The reopening in Illinois is part of a broader campaign by the Trump administration, with the support of the Democrats, Republicans, and the media, to force workers back to work under conditions where doing so risks sickness and death. Pritzker was asked by a reporter during a press conference on June 17 if he would consider closing the economy again in Illinois, Pritzker responded, “I’m not considering moving back to a previous stage as you know in our restore Illinois plan.” He continued, “We will be, as you know evaluating adjustments that may need to be made along the way. Because during phase four we want to make sure that businesses are continuing to reopen.”
The pandemic has decimated the lives of workers across the country. The national unemployment rate currently stands at roughly 15 percent as compared to only 3.5 percent last May. In Illinois, at the end of May, unemployment rose to 14.7 percent statewide, compared to 3.5 percent last May, totaling 738,500 lost jobs. In the Chicago region, which includes the city of Chicago and large suburbs like Naperville, unemployment surpassed the state total, reaching 15.4 percent compared to 3.3 percent last year.In an effort to defuse opposition to this homicidal return to work campaign, the Pritzker administration announced a $900 Million Package Community and Business Grant Programs for Illinois. Similarly, City of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, also a Democrat, is implementing a $1.13 billion COVID-19 grant program. Both programs are funded by federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) act, which transferred trillions to the stock market while only providing a pittance for social relief.
Unemployment is leading to sharp increases in food insecurity among Chicago workers. In May, the Greater Chicago Food Depository stated it is serving 76 percent more people in need of food than in January. Lightfoot’s program will not address the massive needs of workers. Of the $1.13 billion, $403 million will go to COVID-19 Direct Response and $376 million to Airport assistance. This leaves only approximately $350 million for social programs, a pale comparison to Chicago’s $1.8 billion 2020 police department budget.
Moreover, only $4.5 million will go to food assistance, $10 million for mental health, and $11 million for community Healthcare Infrastructure. This distribution is not an adequate amount to have any meaningful effect. Many of these social programs were cut by previous Democratic administrations of Chicago such as Rahm Emmanuel’s notable closing of schools and mental health institutions as cost-cutting measures.
In a conference call reported in the Chicago Tribune, Lightfoot warned of possible austerity measures. “The magnitude of the problems and the challenges that we all face is such that only the federal government has the resources and the wherewithal to act at a scale that’ll make a meaningful difference,” Lightfoot said. “Without that, we are looking at a lot of really, really difficult or impossible choices.” Adding, “Ultimately though, all options including raising property taxes and including layoffs have to remain on the table.”
Before the pandemic, according to census.gov, some 20 percent of Chicago’s residents lived in poverty, 1 in 10 residents lived in extreme poverty while 1 in 4 children lived in poverty. This staggering social inequality will only be exacerbated by the pandemic, soaring unemployment and looming cuts to social services.
Pritzker’s COVID-19 assistance programs fails to meet the pressing needs of Illinois workers. Under the state program, the Illinois Housing Development Authority is launching two programs. The Emergency Rental Assistance is a $150 million program that provides $5,000 grants in emergency rental assistance to Illinois tenants who are unable to pay their rent, which is estimated to amount to approximately 30,000 renters who are disproportionately impacted by the pandemic in the state, and the Emergency Mortgage Assistance Program, which is expected to assist approximately 10,000 eligible homeowners who are unable to pay their mortgage.
The amount of people expected to be reached by these programs is a fraction of a percent of the population that requires assistance and will serve no one in a reasonable capacity. Before the pandemic hit, bookclubchicago.com reported that Chicago’s five eviction courts were seeing around 23,000 eviction cases each year. With massive unemployment, this number will grow sharply.
Illinois is a state which according to Forbe s has a total of 17 billionaires with Governor Pritzker himself being among them, having a combined net worth of $52.5 billion. This amount of wealth is more than enough to provide the necessary health care and social assistance to maintain social distancing and eliminate the outbreak, except it is wasted and hoarded in the hands of a few.
To fight against this homicidal policy of herd immunity and austerity, workers will find a solution only in an international and socialist program independent from all capitalist factors. The Socialist Equality Party is running Joseph Kishore and Norissa Santa Cruz in the presidential election to fight for an independent, working class alternative to the political and economic system that insists that workers must suffer all the consequences of the pandemic while the rich get bailed out.
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