America Faces No Greater Threat Than Joe Biden and the Democrat Party. Their Assault to Our Borders Is As Great As Their Assault to Free Speech and Free Elections
Friday, December 1, 2023
GAVIN NEWSOM OF MELTDOWN CALIFORNIA, AN OPEN BORDERS STATE, TAKES LYING LESSONS FROM JOE BIDEN - Fact Check: Gavin Newsom Says Crime in California ‘At 50-Year Lows’
WE WILL NOT HEAR THESE PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE MURDER RATES PERPETRATED BY MEXICAN GANGS FOR THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS OPERATING IN NORTHERN CA.
As any resident of California can tell you, just about every word out of Newsom’s mouth in this debate was a lie. Under his terms of office, the quality of life in California has declined tragically. As the charts showed, crime is up, far worse than Florida. Hundreds of thousands of locals who used to love downtown for music, theater, museums, no longer go there. It’s too dangerous. San Francisco is in worse shape than LA… as everyone knows. He was far, far worse than DeSantis during the Covid nonsense. Our lockdowns, and mask and vax mandates were tyrannical. California is ranked 38th for pre-K–12 education; Florida is ranked #1. Our schools were stupidly closed for two years during Covid. We tried to recall him, but most believe he cheated to defeat the recall. No one here thinks he has done a good job. He is the Biden of California.
San Francisco’s miserable decline on his watch is common knowledge. The streets are filled with drug-users, homeless people defecating in the streets, and shoplifting and carjackings are permitted. The police can do nothing—they are not allowed. Naturally, hundreds of businesses have closed. Newsom cleaned it up for China’s President Xi, and lined the streets with Chinese flags! Four hundred American CEOs gave Xi, a dictator of whom Mao would be proud, a standing ovation! What does that tell us? Our CEOs are amoral creeps who only care about money, not people; that they admire Xi is a sad commentary on U.S. corporations. Elon Musk was there of course.
Newsom is a pathological liar. Everything he claimed about California was a lie, as was what he said about Florida in his feeble attempt to slime DeSantis. Inflation at 3%! It’s more like 15% here. Our gas prices are the highest in the country. He lied about the sexualized and pornographic material that his party demands be in our elementary and middle schools—his wife produces some of that material. He is owned by the teachers’ union. He lied about books he said are banned in Florida. Flat out lies. Florida has a sensible policy re: such material. Our streets are filled with blitzed transients, their tents, and their shopping carts filled with all manner of detritus. Many of them are aggressive, most are drug-addicted and/or mentally ill. But their rising numbers definitely affect the quality of life here which is why so many thousands are leaving for Florida or Texas. He pushes the whole panoply of green energy boondoggles that are meant only to control how we live, travel, eat, and work. Half of the EV charging stations in this state do not work.
Worst of all was Newsom’s defense of the Biden administration that has done incalculable damage to the nation. Eight to twelve million illegal aliens from countries all over the world, most of whom are military-age men, thousands from China and from Muslim nations that are Sharia-supremacist, have crossed into America. They are given phones, money, and shelter at a cost of $451 billion a year to American taxpayers. This is what the Biden administration that Newsom celebrates hath wrought. The Hamas attack of October 7th on Israel barely came up in the debate, enough for Newsom to pander and admit Hamas is a terrorist organization, but it’s a safe bet that like Biden, he speaks with a forked tongue and would happily stab Israel in the back behind the scenes. That is exactly what Biden and Blinken are doing. But the Hamas attack has exposed the vicious anti-Semitism that far too many of our university students have been taught to embrace by the leftists who control higher education. These pathetic young people chanting “from the river to the sea” seem to be oblivious as to what the chant means: the total annihilation of Israel and every last Jewish citizen. Then Newsom accused DeSantis of anti-Semitism! Florida probably has the largest Jewish population outside of NY; they’ve moved there for a variety of very good reasons. To accuse DeSantis of anti-Semitism was a particularly low and absurd blow. Newsom is a cad.
Tucker Carlson gave a speech in Las Vegas last week in which he said that “Newsom is the single most ruthless and evil person I’ve ever seen in politics.” Watching Newsom tonight proves Carlson is a very good judge of character. Newsom’s malevolent, self-serving nature came through loud and clear. DeSantis may not yet be presidential material but is a decent man who clearly loves his state and his country. Newsom only loves himself. God save us from him ever becoming anything beyond a failed governor of California.
CLAIM: Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) says crime hit “50-year lows” in California, despite higher crime rates than the national average.
VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. National rates overall are lower than decades ago, but crime in California has risen in recent years.
Newsom claimed in his debate on the Fox News Channel with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) that crime rates are at “50-year lows” in his state “since the 1990s.”
DeSantis did not miss the opportunity to point out that Newsom’s claim contrasted with the experience of most California residents, who have seen a retail exodus from San Francisco due to shoplifting, and who find even common items at convenience stores “under lock and key” because of the problem of theft in other California cities as well.
Left-wing prosecutors, such as (now-ousted) Chesa Boudin in San Francisco and George Soros-backed George Gascón in Los Angeles, have declined to prosecute many violent felons, and are widely blamed by the public for the decline in public safety.
Newsom is basing his claim on the fact that crime has, in fact, declined nationwide, including in California. But as host Sean Hannity pointed out in his question, California’s crime rate is higher than the national average — which Newsom did not explain.
The Public Policy Institute of California noted on November 1:
Recently released FBI crime data from two-thirds of the country’s law enforcement agencies indicate that California’s violent crime rate is increasingly diverging from the national trend: as of 2022, it is 31% higher than the US rate. This divergence is driven largely by aggravated assaults, which have been declining nationwide while rising in California.
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When we look at trends since 2010, we see that California’s violent crime rate trend roughly mirrored the nationwide trend in the decade before the pandemic. The California-US violent crime rate gap widened from 10% to 15% in 2015, partly due to an adjustment in Los Angeles Police Department reporting after the agency was found to have significantly underreported aggravated assaults from 2008 to 2014. During the pandemic, however, the gap grew from 15% in 2019 to 31% by 2022. Less striking but noteworthy, while property crime increased nationally and in California in 2022, nationwide it is down by 8% compared to the pre-pandemic level, while in California it is now 1% higher.
Newsom’s hometown newspaper, the San Francisco Chronicle, said the following last month:
California’s violent crime rate increased for the second year in a row in 2022, while violence in the United States overall declined. But the state’s property crime increased only modestly and in line with the rest of the country. …
California followed the national trends; its homicide rates, which are lower than the broader U.S. rate, went up by 39% from 2019 to 2021, then back down again by 5% in 2022. …
California’s overall violent crime rate in 2022 stood at 500 reported crimes per 100,000 people, the highest it’s been since 2008 but still low relative to the highs of the 1980s and 90s.
Newsom is relying on that latter comparison with the “1980s ad 90s.” But crime is climbing in California, as residents well know.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and the host of Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the new biography, Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order’. He is also the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
Breitbart Business Digest: Joe Tries to Bidenboozle the Public on Inflation
President Biden’s increasingly brazen attempts to bamboozle the American public on economic matters have more than a whiff of desperation.
Biden complained in a speech on Monday that businesses were not reducing their prices even though inflation has declined. Those that were not cutting prices were engaged in “price gouging,” the president claimed.
“Let me be clear: To any corporation that has not brought their prices back down — even as inflation has come down, even supply chains have been rebuilt — it’s time to stop the price gouging — giving the American consumer a break,” Biden said.
When Biden says things that are so clearly wrong, the temptation is to write it off as one of his many rhetorical stumbles. When he referred to his Oval Office predecessor as “Congressman Trump” in a speech in Colorado yesterday, for example, few thought he genuinely believed that Donald Trump was serving in the House of Representatives. Neither did fair observers think he was trying to bamboozle the public into thinking Trump was a member of Congress, one of the few parts of government with lower approval ratings than Biden himself.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his “Bidenomics” economic plan alongside workers at a wind tower manufacturer in Pueblo, Colorado, on November 29, 2023. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
It just seemed like the lack of verbal acuity we’ve become accustomed to from Biden. He says a lot of things that do not make sense or are just plain wrong. But no one takes those things literally or seriously because that’s just the kind of thing we’ve come to expect after Biden says “let me be clear.”
Monday’s inflation statement seemed like just another one of these Bidenisms. Everyone who has given a moment’s attention to inflation knows it is a rate of change in the price level. When the rate of inflation goes from nine percent to three percent, as it did from the summer of 2022 to the summer of 2023, this doesn’t mean that prices are falling. It means that prices are rising at a slower pace.
The trouble with shrugging off Biden’s statement as a verbal blunder is that it was part of his prepared remarks, published on the White House website. Because official remarks go through a cumbersome vetting process by high-level White administration officials, it’s clear Biden was expressing exactly what was intended. And because speeches on the economy get reviewed by high-level economic advisers, this was not an innocent error from a confused political speech writer. This was an intentional attempt to bamboozle—let’s call it Bidenboozle—the public.
Did the Atlanta Fed Rebuke Biden for the Bidenboozle?
This may have been what prompted Atlanta Fed Chief Raphael Bostic to include a clarification on this point in his recent essay on inflation:
Declining inflation doesn’t mean declining prices
Before I conclude, I want to clarify that a declining inflation rate does not mean prices actually fall. What we are experiencing is called disinflation. When prices on average decline, that’s deflation.
Deflation might sound appealing. After all, who wouldn’t want to pay less for groceries next week? But it can be economically destructive. Consumers may delay purchases because they expect prices will keep falling. That can curtail overall consumption, which can prompt businesses to cut production, which in turn can mean lower profits, cost cutting, and layoffs.
While this may not have been intended as a rebuke of the president, the timing of its publication—two days after the president’s remarks—meant it functioned as one.
Biden Takes the Bidenboozle on the Road and on to Twitter
Incredibly, Biden followed this up with an outburst on X (formerly Twitter) that repeated the Monday statement almost word-for-word.
This prompted gasps of horror from those who apparently missed the Monday remarks.
This Bidenboozle is now part of the president’s regular stump speech. Here he is in Colorado on Wednesday repeating the same claim, adding in a bit of rhetorical flourish with the phrase “greedflation.”
Behind this toxic turn against the facts on inflation is the Biden administration’s mounting distress over the president’s polling numbers. As we detailed this week, the president’s economic management is strikingly unpopular with younger Americans and women, key constituencies for Democrats.
In the latest Gallup poll, just 32 percent of Americans say they approve of the president on economic matters. Among 18- to 34-year-olds, Biden’s economic approval rating is just 28 percent. Among women, just 33 percent say they approve of Biden on the economy.
The trouble is that this particular Bidenboozle is so obviously wrong that it is likely to backfire. At best, it will convince Americans that the president does not understand inflation. At worst, it puts on display Biden’s willingness to say anything to maintain power.
Migrant enclaves already are at the top of the U.S. lists for bad places to - 10 of the 50 worst places in America to live according to this list are in California, and all of them are famous for their illegal populations. MONICA SHOWALTER
The answer regarding Arizona’s swing lies in its neighbor to the west, California. Since 2012, California has overwhelmingly sent more transplants to Arizona than any other state. When surveyed, escaping Californians cite high taxes, high crime rates, unaffordable housing, out-of-control homelessness, and high unemployment rates as their top reasons for fleeing.
Why Most Californians Aren't Happy With the State | Victor Davis Hanson
(Ep370, repost from Nov 2022) California has almost half of the nation’s homeless population, has some of the highest taxes in the country, and is ranked among the lowest in education. What does the future look like for California? Are we able to turn our state back into the prosperous land it once was?
Host Siyamak Khorrami sits down with Victor Davis Hanson, historian and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, to discuss the California Exodus.
Dean Cain Rejoices in Leaving L.A. Behind for Las Vegas: ‘California Has Gone Crazy’
Dean Cain has never been happier. The iconic Superman actor left his long-time Southern California neighbourhood behind earlier this year and made the move to Las Vegas, relieved to escape the regulated and strictly controlled Democrat fiefdom.
He told the Messenger of his relief at saying goodbye to his old Malibu, Calif. abode which he sold for $6.25 million in May:
I had to leave California. California has gone crazy in a sense. There’s been so much. Look at the taxation. Look at the regulations. Look at the silly laws that have been passed. There were things that I didn’t agree with, and I’ve been voting here and living here and working here my entire life. I finally got to a place where I was like, I don’t agree with this.
But why did he choose Nevada? Cain said his parents have been living in the state for two years now. He also praised the state for having no personal income tax.
“It’s a big savings,” he went on to explain, applauding “It’s so much easier to travel places from Las Vegas than from LAX. It’s incredible. It’s the quietest place I’ve ever slept in my life. When I got here and saw traffic, I was like, ‘What is this foreign substance? I don’t like it anymore.’ I don’t deal with that at all. It’s great.”
Dean Cain attends the 2022 Fandemic Tour at Georgia World Congress Center on March 19, 2022 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Paras Griffin/Getty)
Cain told the outlet his acting career continues to flourish despite the tyranny of distance between his old home and the new.
In the past year alone, the actor said he has shot 10 projects outside of Los Angeles. “People don’t want to [shoot in L.A.],” he said. “It costs too much, there’s too many restrictions.”
This is not the first time Cain has hit out at California.
He previously said California’s taxation policies have gotten so extreme that it almost feels the state has been trying to “tax people out of there.” The actor also lamented the state’s ongoing homeless problem that has seen with it a rapid spike in violent crime, as Breitbart News reported.
“The policies are just terrible. The fiscal policies, the soft-on-crime policies, the homelessness policies,” he said in June. “The things that our leaders in California have been doing have driven out anybody who can really afford to get out. People are flocking out of there in droves.”
The actor also railed against a recent California bill that would have required judges to consider a parent encouraging a child’s gender identity in custody cases. Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed the bill.
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“If I were to end up in a custody case with somebody over an adolescent child who thought they were … like my son thought he was a bird, he wanted to be a bird when he was young,” Cain said.
“And if I didn’t affirm his ‘birdness,’ they might have tried to take that child away from me. Which is some of the crazy things that are going on in California when it comes to that, when it comes to schools.”
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