NAME ONE DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED CITY NOT IN MELTDOWN DUE TO BLACK CRIME! JUST ONE!!!
Neely also had a long rap sheet, a fact conveniently overlooked by most media sympathizers. According to the Daily News, Neelly has been arrested 42 times in the last 10 years, most recently in November 2021 for slugging a 67-year-old female stranger in the face as she exited a subway station. He had a history of mental illness.”
Former State Rep’s Son Arrested After Crash That Killed 5 Women
The son of a disgraced former Minnesota state representative has been arrested in connection with a crash that killed four young women and a teenage girl, police said.
Derrick John Thompson, the 27-year-old son of former Democratic Rep. John Thompson, was booked Monday on suspicion of murder after he allegedly blew through a red light in Minneapolis on Friday night and plowed into the victims’ car at 95 miles an hour—killing all five at the scene.
Law enforcement said he fled the site after the crash. But authorities arrested Thompson after searching the area and took him to a nearby hospital that night, before his eventual booking on Monday, police said.
Court records obtained by KSTP-TV show that Thompson has a prior felony conviction stemming from a 2018 hit-and-run. He got an eight-year prison sentence for that crime in 2020, but was released earlier this year.
Thompson’s driver’s license was revoked after he was convicted for fleeing a police officer in 2017. It was reinstated earlier this month—just over a week before the deadly crash on Friday.
Thompson’s father, John Thompson, was a one-term lawmaker who represented St. Paul from 2021 to 2023. He was defeated in a primary election last year amid a number of looming controversies, including domestic violence allegations and questions over whether he lived in the district he represented.
Rep. Thompson was also accused of whisking his daughter away from a traffic stop last year before cops could administer a field sobriety test, and of characterizing his own traffic stop a year earlier as a case of “driving while Black.” (He was pulled over for driving without a front license plate and driving under suspension.)
The Minneapolis Police Department is investigating how Derrick Thompson’s name was shared with the media on Monday. It’s also investigating the source of the “graphic video,” which was taken from Metro Transit surveillance and leaked to the public without authorization.
“Both are very concerning,” Chief Brian O’Hara said in a statement, calling the crash “senseless and incredibly tragic.”
“Our hearts break for the families and loved ones of these innocent young victims who had their entire lives ahead of them,” the statement said. “While the MPD has made an arrest in this case, our investigation continues relentlessly, so that we can ensure the strongest possible evidence is provided to prosecute this offender for his crimes to the fullest extent of the law. And the MPD will remain committed to providing support to the victims’ families throughout this process.”
The five women were close friends and were reportedly shopping for a friend’s wedding the night of the crash. They were all members of the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center mosque in Bloomington, led by Khalid Omar, who called the women “pearls of the community—and the brightness of our future,” in an interview with KSTP-TV.
“Losing anyone, that’s a tragedy,” Omar told CBS Minnesota. “But losing five young people at the same time is something that is very hard to process.”
Nolte: Wall Street Bets Against Democrat-Run Downtowns
Wall Street is now betting against America’s Democrat-run downtowns ever recovering from being run exclusively by Democrats.
“Wall Street is betting against America’s [Democrat-run] downtowns,” writes the Wall Street Journal.
“Investors are paying less for bonds linked to New York subways and buses,” says the report. “Downtown-focused real-estate investment trusts trade at less than half their prepandemic levels. Bondholders are demanding extra interest to hold office-building debt.”
Downtowns have been a mother lode for American cities over the years, providing billions of dollars in tax revenue along with their distinctive skylines. In turn, investors who bet on downtown office towers, or on the trains and buses delivering workers to them, could generally trust they held a winning hand.Now, with white-collar workers spending more time in their home offices, a phenomenon that shows few signs of ending, investments linked to downtowns are trading at falling prices in volatile markets.
And which downtowns are we talking about? Democrat-run Houston. Democrat-run Chicago. Democrat-run Los Angeles. Democrat-run San Francisco. Democrat-run New York.
Does anyone see a pattern emerging here?
“Investors’ dimming view of downtowns isn’t good news for [Democrat-run] cities’ finances, nor for their residents,” continues the report. “It puts under strain some of [Democrat-run] city governments’ traditional ways of extracting wealth: collecting property taxes on office buildings, taxes on wages earned within city limits, and fares from office workers’ commutes.”
One analyst described it this way: “You could see this as a slow-motion change or as the beginning of a slow-moving train wreck.”Things are so bad in Democrat-run New York; the library is preparing to close down one day a week in order to save money.According to one tracking group, Democrat-run downtown office buildings “are only about 50% as full as before Covid-19 across 10 major [Democrat-run] metro areas[.]”
What did they expect? That after Rapey Joe was installed, everything would return to normal? Idiots.
WATCH: CNN’s Sidner Says Drug Users Come to San Francisco Because of Lax Laws
I’ll tell you exactly what happened… 1) people discovered they enjoyed working from home, 2) companies discovered it was much cheaper to allow employees to work from home, 3) parents discovered Republicans don’t cause havoc by closing schools, and (most importantly), 4) people discovered that Democrats are willing to use any excuse to unleash chaos, disrupt the lives of citizens, and grab dictatorial power they wield without mercy or reason (liquor stores open, churches, gyms, and schools closed). So, people fled.
People complain about the rat race, the rut, and routine; that’s why they enjoy shows like The Walking Dead; it allows them to fantasize about breaking the routine with a little adventure. But the excitement wore off pretty quickly when the reality of that “adventure” hit with the lockdowns.
People missed their dull, uneventful lives and grew to appreciate them. But now that power-mad Democrats have proven they are willing to throw a grenade at our gloriously dull and uneventful lives, people and companies fled.
You see, this is why socialism can only “work” through violence. In a free country like ours, one where we can just pick up and go if we don’t like things, the Woke Reich will always lose. People want to be free. Most of all, they want to be left alone. Above all, they want their children left alone. Only the threat of violence can create a society where people don’t flee, and of course, that threat of violence starts with confiscating every law-abiding citizen’s guns.
Wanna Be a Good Samaritan? Fuhgeddaboudit…
This past May 1 was a typical day on the New York City subways. Commuters and tourists were transiting beneath the chaos of overhead Manhattan, only to witness New York’s subterranean version of Dante’s Inferno.
Specifically, a homeless man, now euphemistically called an “urban camper” or “displaced person,” was harassing fellow subway passengers. The Guardian went further in their descriptors, calling Neely “a talented dancer” who was “remembered as kind and loving” and even “had a fan club.”
Neely also had a long rap sheet, a fact conveniently overlooked by most media sympathizers. According to the Daily News, Neelly has been arrested 42 times in the last 10 years, most recently in November 2021 for slugging a 67-year-old female stranger in the face as she exited a subway station. He had a history of mental illness.”
Enter ex-Marine Daniel Penny, a fellow traveler on one of New York’s subterranean mental institutions on wheels, noting how Neely was harassing and threatening other passengers. With the assistance of several other like-minded passengers, Penny restrained Neely until he stopped resisting.
Penny then put Neely into a recovery position (with passengers complimenting his actions), hardly the moves of someone intent on killing Neely. "He’s a hero," said another passenger, who has lived in New York City more than 50 years.
One man’s hero is another man’s criminal, specifically to a left-wing Manhattan District Attorney. Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg, taking a break from chasing Donald Trump over supposed dressing room hanky-panky at Bergdorf Goodman, convinced a grand jury to indict the 24-year-old White Marine veteran for second-degree manslaughter.
Penny’s real crime was that he was acting as a Good Samaritan, trying to do the right thing, protecting his fellow subway riders from harassment and potential injury. His other crime was his skin color.
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That last bit is not hyperbole. Noted in an NBC News article on the indictment was this paragraph, “Penny, who is white, said he acted to protect himself and other passengers when he confronted Neely, who was Black.”
If skin color wasn’t relevant, why did NBC mention it? It wasn’t an issue for Penny. “I didn’t see a Black man threatening passengers. I saw a man threatening passengers,” Penny said.
But to the corporate media and left-wing politicians, everything is about race. NBC went further playing the race card, “The incident evoked memories of the 1984 shooting of four Black teenagers on a New York City subway by Bernhard Goetz, a white man who feared he was being mugged.”
Not surprisingly, NBC neglected to mention another NYC race hustle, the Tawana Brawley fake-rape case, where she tag teamed with racial provocateur Al Sharpton to fabricate a story about a Black teenager being raped and kidnapped by a group of white men.
If a crazed white guy on the NYC subway shouted to passengers, “I’m gonna’ kill you”, as Neely did and a Black Marine veteran took him down, restraining him to protect fellow passengers, he would be lauded as a hero, making the rounds of cable news shows and “The View.” He would certainly not be indicted and facing years in prison, as Daniel Penny is.
“A shirtless man assaulted a 75-year-old woman as she left a Macy’s store in Manhattan at Sixth Avenue and West 34th Street over the weekend, according to NYPD.” Will DA Bragg pursue this recent Black assailant with any of the vigor directed toward Daniel Penny? Don’t hold your breath.
The concept of the Good Samaritan goes back to Biblical times, specifically the book of Luke, chapter 10, and the “Parable of the Good Samaritan.”
What’s the message for fellow New Yorkers, or residents of any large American city under full Democrat control? Is it wise to borrow from Spike Lee’s movie, Do the Right Thing?
Or is the now smarter course of action to say, “Fuhgeddaboutdit”? Those wanting to lend a helping hand had better beware, especially if they are White. If anything goes wrong, they will be castigated, prosecuted, and possibly incarcerated for their noble efforts.
Remembering Bob Dylan’s great song “Hurricane” about racial injustice toward black boxer Rubin Carter, the skin colors and discrimination in the song have done a 180-degree flip since the mid-1960s in Paterson, New Jersey.
Words from the song are appropriate for any Good Samaritan wanabees on the NYC or other big-city transit systems, as it was for Daniel Penny trying to do the right thing, “He had no idea what kinda shit was about to go down.” With a crucial follow up admonition, “Don't forget that you are White.”
It is not only on subways but also in stores that Good Samaritans are persona non grata. In a metro Denver, supermarket King Soopers fired five employees for stopping a shoplifter. A food worker union in Washington told employees to not stop shoplifters. Uber-woke Lululemon fired store employees for trying to stop shoplifters with the CEO standing behind this decision.
Good Samaritans are chumps. Why not make cash registers and paying for merchandise optional? Employees should just watch TikTok videos on their phones and respond only to direct questions from customers. They can leave the store as a free-for-all for thieves. Doing the right thing only leads to big trouble, such as loss of job, or in Daniel Penny’s case, loss of freedom.
Forget Jesus’s Bible teachings. If the Parable of the Good Samaritan now becomes a criminal act, expect wanton crime and violence in Democrat cities to exponentially increase as those wanting to do the right thing follow the lead of the parable’s priest and Levite, looking down and walking away.
Want to be a good Samaritan and do the right thing? Fuhgeddaboudit.
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Illegal Immigration Drives 110% Increase in NYC Homeless Shelter Population
New York City’s homeless shelter system is “buckling” as waves of illegal aliens migrate to the sanctuary city, with local taxpayers left paying the price, a Washington Post report details.
Since the spring of last year, close to 100,000 border crossers and illegal aliens have arrived in New York City under Mayor Eric Adams’ watch. Adams has not asked the Joe Biden administration to end the inflow, but instead, has urged the White House to expedite work permits for new arrivals.
Watch: Democrat Mayor Eric Adams Says Sanctuary NYC Didn’t “Ask for” Influx of Migrants
NYC Mayor's Office / YouTubeAccording to figures published in the Washington Post, the city’s shelter system has grown more than 110 percent since Adams took office — leaving New Yorkers footing the bill:
The influx of migrants in New York has pushed the city’s total shelter population to 95,000, up from 45,000 when Adams took office in January 2022. [Emphasis added]
“We have reached a point where the system is buckling,” Anne Williams-Isom, deputy mayor for health and human services, told reporters at a news conference in late May. [Emphasis added]
At roughly $380 per person daily, New York officials say the cost of caring for the migrants will reach $4.3 billion over the next 12 months. In a statement this week, Adams thanked Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) for helping to secure $104 million in federal funding for the city, while also calling for more resources. [Emphasis added]
Late last week, Adams announced a plan to more quickly allow border crossers and illegal aliens in the city’s shelter system to secure rental assistance money funded by local taxpayers. The goal, Adams said, is to get new arrivals out of shelters and into neighborhoods.
Desperate to find space for a steady stream of illegal immigration, Adams recently opened a warehouse near the John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport as a migrant shelter. Lawmakers have warned that the plan poses “a security threat to one of America’s largest transportation hubs.”
Watch: Migrants REFUSE to Leave NYC Hotel, Demand Taxpayers Give Them “Permanent Homes”
@datainput via StoryfulAdams has also suggested that he may open Gracie Mansion, where the city’s mayor typically resides, to newly-arrived border crossers and illegal aliens, while stating that New Yorkers should consider opening their homes to migrants as well.
The mayor’s most expansive program involves funneling millions of dollars in local taxpayer money to the hotel industry by paying hotels to house migrants in rooms free of charge to them.
As a result of the cost of the migrant hotels program, Adams has said the city may have to adopt public services like meals for senior citizens and library hours for New Yorkers.
Watch: Sanctuary NYC Dem Mayor Complains Asylum Seekers Will “Impact Every Area of Life”
Mayor Eric Adams / FacebookJohn Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter here.
Soros and Garland: Because They Really Believe
This week we got two useful pieces of information on the politics front.
First, George Soros is handing over his fortune to his younger son Alex. Alex will use control of the fortune to "broaden his father’s famously woke interests to include issues like voting and abortion rights as well as 'gender equality.'”
In a way, this is comforting. Son Alex seems to be an out-of-the-box wokie believer, that prays at all the usual woke shrines. His father, George, was a more complex character.
Second, the Department of Justice issued a report on the Minneapolis police department and found that it is racist, uses "excessive force, including unjustified deadly force, unlawfully discriminates against blacks and Native Americans," and so on. Attorney General Merrick Garland said it was all "deeply disturbing."
To you and I, all this is laughable. We see the results of Soros prosecutors putting violent criminals back on the streets; we see soaring crime rates in the black community and we sneer at the Justice Department's accusation of systemic racism in the Minneapolis police force.
But I go back to Sun Tzu and his famous quote:
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.
Therefore I say: never mind that Alex Soros is a wokey twerp, or that the Biden Administration's World War on systemic racism is a lie.
The fact is that our liberal friends really believe! They believe that we are all going to die of climate change; That systemic racism is a monstrous injustice on Black people.
Let us understand them. Let us understand ourselves. And then go out into the public square ready for a hundred battles.
Our liberal friends really believe that their analysis of the human world as the oppressors and the oppressed is a true and faithful understanding of reality. And they regard the failure of Blacks to thrive since the civil-rights era as proof of systemic racism and the power of white supremacists. They must believe this 
because otherwise they would have to understand that their programs and policies have Made Things Worse. What human ever does that?
At Powerline Scott Johnson goes into the whys and wherefores of how the Minneapolis police force is just dealing with the fact that
Every study ever conducted (including victim surveys) has shown that blacks are arrested in the same proportion as they offend.
But,
The [DoJ] report finds that blacks are treated differently than similarly situated whites, controlling for the reason, for the stop/use of force, and for the “similar behavior” of the offender.
We conservatives look at the studies and confirm that police use of force against Blacks is about right, considering that Blacks commit a lot more crimes. Liberals look at the studies and see disproportionate use of police force. Sophisticated people say that we all tend to interpret reality as "confirming our priors."
I tell you what would change things: if one fine day Blacks stopped voting Democrat, like the White working class did in 1980 when the "Reagan Democrats" voted for the "amiable dunce" Ronald Reagan.
Maybe one of the reasons that the White working class has switched to the GOP is encapsulated in this quote from longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer in "The Negro Revolution" in The Temper of Our Time published in 1966.
The simple fact is that the people I have lived and worked with all my life… have not the least feeling of guilt toward the Negro. The majority of us started to work for a living in our teens, and we have been poor all our lives… My kind of people does not feel that the world owes us anything, or that we owe anybody -- white, black, or yellow -- a damn thing.
But politics. There is no politics without an enemy, and in the politics of Allyship, we Allies fight with the Oppressed Peoples against the White Oppressor, because Change.
But politics is also about friends. Thus, the immortal quote of Óscar Benavides, president of Peru from 1933-39:
For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.
Especially former President Trump.
For our liberal friends the friend /enemy distinction is extended into the moral, of good vs. evil, where fighting systemic racism is what All Good People Do, because Justice. So our liberal friends have a perfect moral-political system that explains everything, until the day after it collapses in ruins.
So we know liberals. Whatabout us? Sun Tzu says we should know ourselves.
We are like the Hobbits that just want to live peacefully and wive and thrive in Hobbiton. But, unfortunately, we are called, from time to time, to battle with the Saurons of the world, and wrest from them the Ring of Power before they destroy the world.
And that is what we are called to do with our liberal friends.
Christopher Chantrill @chrischantrill runs the go-to site on US government finances, usgovernmentspending.com. Also get his American Manifesto and his Road to the Middle Class.
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