Looters took to the streets of Minneapolis late Wednesday following the suicide of a homicide suspect, looting several stores including Saks 5th Avenue and a liquor store, as several videos show.
“More looting in downtown Minneapolis. They’ve now breached the Saks 5th Avenue store on 6th and Nicollet and people are making out with lots of goods,” FOX 9 reporter Courtney Godfrey reported late Wednesday night:
“Burn this shit down!” one man screamed as another entered a store through the broken glass:
According to FOX 9’s Godfrey, authorities broke up the looting at the Saks 5th Avenue store using pepper spray. Notably, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently called to ban officers from using non-lethal munitions, including pepper spray, on protesters:
The New York Times has gone off the deep end again.
This article claims that racist urban planning is why some neighborhoods are hotter than others.
How racist urban planning left some neighborhoods to swelter
The story started with a simple question: Why are some neighborhoods so much hotter than others? In cities like Baltimore, Portland and New York, neighborhoods that are lower-income and have more Black or Hispanic residents can be up to 20 degrees Fahrenheit hotter in summer, with far fewer trees and more heat-absorbing pavement than whiter, wealthier parts of the same city.
Yet its chart shows absolutely that it is fewer trees and more cement or blacktop that causes warming, not CO2, fossil fuels or oil use.
Racism is pretty far-fetched.
It is also common sense that cement is hotter than grass or pastures or forests. One of the main reasons that the data show a minor rise in temperatures over the last 150 years, after a little ice age ended around 1850, is that many temperature gathering stations were moved from rural grassy areas to areas with cement, buildings and asphalt. What a surprise!
It is truly a shame that Democrat-run cities like Baltimore, Portland, New York and others do so much to keep minorities poor and dependent on government instead of giving them the opportunity to move up the economic ladder like Trump does.
And while they're running these cities, why can't they cough up for a few neighborhood trees?
The Democrat anti-poverty, welfare programs of the last fifty years have encouraged the breakup of families lead more people to live in poverty. That causes them to live in more crowded homes in hotter neighborhoods. The crowded homes and poverty lead to worse health outcomes and leaves them more vulnerable to diseases like COVID 19. Why do so many minorities have worse outcomes from the virus because their health leaves them more vulnerable. Could it be that it is because so many of them have been dependent on government run healthcare for decades? Why would we want this for everyone? Competition yields better results not a government monopoly.
The disease, nor climate change are racist. The policies that keep minorities dependent on government are. There is not systemic racism but there are a heck of a lot of people who want minorities to be dependent on government and that is most of the media, entertainers and other Democrats.
Why do almost all journalists repeat that the science is settled on oil and CO2 causing climate change and hotter temperatures when there is no scientific data that shows a direct correlation between temperatures and oil use?
Why aren’t Joe Biden, PresidentObama, Kamala Harris, Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Bill Gates asked for scientific data to support their agenda? The answer is that there is none and that is why the debate is cut off and those of us who tell the truth that the climate has always changed cyclically and naturally are called stupid, anti-science and climate change deniers. Instead of debating us, they call us names. We are also called racists because they don’t want to debate their radical leftists policies.
The answer is they want government control of all aspects of our lives, No one with any common sense or a brain should believe that politicians and bureaucrats can control temperatures, sea levels and storm activity forever if we just hand them trillions of hard-earned dollars and destroy the economy.
The same people who say they can control temperatures, sea levels and storm activity forever are the ones who continually lied that we could keep our health care plan, our doctor and our premiums and costs would drop substantially. Why would anyone trust them?
My guess is the New York Times journalists who wrote this article have no idea that they exposed the lie that CO2 and oil cause temperatures to rise but I thank them for writing it to give us stupid, anti-science people more ammunition before we intentionally destroy the U.S. economy.
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The Collapse of the Democrat Brand
"He spoke in generalities that everyone found agreeable at first and meaningless upon reflection." That is one summary of Democrat icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt's speaking style.
Last week's Democratic National Convention shows how little Democrats have changed — a beautiful outer shell with nothing inside. Professions of equality, justice, compassion, and empathy are precisely the types of slogans many of us find initially agreeable but too vague and empty to warrant additional thought. The only difference is that today's Democrats bring a parade of celebrities to play the part of aesthetically pleasing decorations on the outer walls of their empty shell.
Democrats have built their brand on proclamations of benevolence. They've successfully branded themselves to many Americans as the party who cares about others, the tolerant people, the non-racist party, and the party for good-hearted people who want us all to get along. This brand image was mostly built on the backs of tie-dye-shirted, pacifist 1960s hippies. Educators romanticized the sit-ins and protests for decades, which calcified the left as the brand of non-violence. After all, the pacifist hippie is a much better brand spokesman than the Black Panthers or the Weather Underground, who routinely committed terrorist attacks in the 1960s.
To be fair to Democrats, they have no choice but to be disingenuous. They are beholden to a brand image that doesn't accurately depict who they are. For decades, the left's monopoly on mass communication systems concealed its true character. Today, ubiquitous camera phones and social media have made leftists' hate and violence impossible to hide. Their only option is pretending to align with the existing Democrat brand and hoping we forget the last ten years.
Democrats approve of burning cities, mass riots, and hundreds of beatings for those willing to wear Trump-branded clothing. Surveys show that nearly half of leftists won't even be friends with Trump-supporters. There are also countless examples of Trump-supporters blacklisted for incorrect political viewpoints. None of this is congruent with a kind, tolerant, peaceful brand. Perhaps the pinnacle of the left's false brand image happened at a Minnesota high school when students violently beat another student for carrying a Trump flag during a protest — against gun violence.
It's hard for someone to be likable when any level of disagreement is anathema to him. The same applies to the Democrat brand. Hollywood has resorted to rewriting existing superheroes to be more woke because it can't create woke heroes. That's because there is nothing admirable about wokeness. Children don't aspire to be perpetual complainers who thrive on destroying people for typos . There is nothing likable about paranoid malcontents, who see racism and Russian assets everywhere they look. Nobody wants to be a leftist because it sounds miserable, and multiple polls prove that Democrats are less happy than Republicans. Democrats can create superheroes — just not in their own image, because there is nothing honorable or likeable about the left. Its brand is dead.
The Democrats' brand has collapsed beyond repair and they know it. The current strategy to prevent the flock from fleeing the pasture is not preserving their brand, but branding the alternative option as so deplorable that it's beneath consideration. The only way to cover up the noxious fumes of leftism is to double down on the negative branding of Republicans as a party of hate.
"Love Trumps Hate," "Make America Hate Again," "Hate Has No Home Here" — these are merely a few of the slogans attempting to link hate to the conservative brand. Hate speech, hate crimes, hate groups — everything is "hate."
The dominance of the Democrat brand throughout mass media, education, and American culture successfully branded the left as the default way to vote — especially for young people. But Democrat branding efforts are most effective when they're the only show in town. For years, the left has bullied Republicans to preserve its brand monopoly.
If conservatives are scared to share their political beliefs, it makes those flamboyant about their left-wing politics seem like the morally superior choice. If Republicans were morally superior, why would they hide their views? Threats , intimidation , and doxxing are the primary reasons for the silence, and this bullying has prevented Republicans from taking pride in their brand.
The real cause for the vitriol toward Trump-supporters is that this new Republican pride is symbolic of the left's brand decline. With every MAGA hat is the realization of the left's intimidation and propaganda not working as effectively as they once did. The rage that follows is a panicked leftist struggling to understand why the left's efforts aren't working. Leftists have inundated Americans with leftism at every turn but can't understand why some people still don't convert. Every sighting of a MAGA hat is a reminder that the Democrats' brand is fading fast.
The only solution is to take the conservative brand down to their level and regain the advantage of the default vote. Their desperation is obvious when they compare Donald Trump to Democrat segregationists like George Wallace, often incorrectly labeling Wallace as a Republican to strengthen the lie. It no longer matters if lies, censorship, and cancel culture further damage the Democrat brand — their brand has already collapsed. Efforts must focus solely on damaging the conservative brand. Besides, if they win one more election, they won't need to rely on branding anymore.
A Democrat sweep in November will provide amnesty to 20+ million illegal aliens, plus another five to ten million immigrants imported over the next four years through our new open borders policy. These new American citizens will be bribed with our tax dollars to vote away our rights. A Somalian immigrant isn't going to turn down a monthly paycheck to preserve your Second Amendment rights. Antifa will help draft public policy; they'll abolish the Electoral College and pack the SCOTUS with leftists. That's not hyperbole, either — they are open about all of this. Under such circumstances, it will be difficult for Republicans to win an election anytime soon.
They know how close they are to reaching their goals — which is why the Democrats no longer even try to defend their brand. Democrats have sacrificed their brand to win in 2020 without any contingency plan. Their lust for power has blinded them to the consequences of destroying their brand in a losing effort.
When Trump wins in November, the death of their brand will finally sink in.
Bode Lang is a conservative blogger who produces conservative videos on YouTube. You can find him at https://www.youtube.com/c/Bodelang .
Portland Mayor : No I Don't Have a Plan to Stop the Riots, It'll "Burn Itself Out"Thu Aug 27, 2020
That's the sort of thing that has to be really comforting to hear if...
1. You're a Portland resident
2. A Portland homeowner
3. A Portland business owner
You know all that violence that's wrecking the city. We don't have a plan to stop it. But eventually it'll burn itself out.
Portland mayor Ted Wheeler (D.)—who has yet to provide his police department with consistent directives to quell the riots, arson, and looting that have plagued his city for months—told Oregon Public Radio his strategy was to let the violence "burn itself out."
Ah the, "This is Fine" strategy.
This is your public safety. And this is your public safety on police defunding where violent criminality is just expected to eventually burn itself out.
Mayor Wheeler's thesis is that eventually the Black Lives Matter rioters, looters, and assorted criminals tagging along in their wake will just get bored and go home.
And no, don't count on the police protecting you.
But if people aren't paying taxes for public safety, what are they paying them for? Oh right. Social justice initiatives.
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