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 15, 2023
MELTDOWN AMERICA - A GLANCE AT DEM-CONTROLLED LOS ANGELES, MEXICO'S SECOND LARGEST CITY - Biden Admin Orders Starbucks to Reopen Closed Stores Is there such a thing as "illegally closing stores"?
NUMBER ONE MELTDOWN COUNTY IN LOS ANGELES FOR HOMELESSNESS, ILLEGALS AND CRIME IS LOS ANGELES. THIS COUNTY HANDS OUT $1.5 BILLION TO ILLEGALS IN WELFARE TO KEEP LA RAZA HAPPY AND VOTING DEM FOR MORE!
Gavin Newsom, Local Lawmakers Argue over Responsibility of Homelessness in California BUT IT'S NOT MEXICO'S EXPORTATION OF POVERTY AND CRIMINALS OR THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S OPEN BORDERS DOCTRINE!
American Counties in Crisis due to Poverty, Homelessness, and Crime
It’s hard to pick sides here. On the one hand, the Starbucks union is literally Hamas while on the other hand, Starbucks nurtured every leftist cause until there was an attempt to unionize its stores. And since unions hit its profit margins that was suddenly a bridge too far. But it’s still a remarkable move even for an administration that embraces every leftist agenda item and its NLRB appointees who are union hacks and radical leftists.
Starbucks is being accused of illegally shutting down six locations in the Los Angeles area to suppress union organizing activity.
A National Labor Relations Board regional director issued a complaint this week, claiming Starbucks shut down nearly two dozen stores across the country to discourage workers from unionizing.
The new NLRB complaint states Starbucks needs to reopen 23 stores – six of which are in the Los Angeles – and issue back pay to workers who were affected by the closures.
Is there such a thing as “illegally closing stores”? What happens if Starbucks doesn’t reopen them, the Biden administration will nationalize Starbucks and prove that it can lose money running a high-end coffee chain?
Starbucks declined to provide a representative for Eyewitness News to interview, but said the six stores that were closed in the L.A. area were not unionized, and instead were closed for safety reasons.
Starbucks claimed that these were “high-incident” stores with a lot of homeless issues and police responses. Companies are allowed to close stores for business reasons. The NLRB has failed to prove that the store closings were not for business reasons.
Only 7 of the stores had unionized.
But the NLRB is integrated with the SEIU radical leftist union which is trying to unionize Starbucks workers.
And so an insane regime that began with the New Deal is trying to run every aspect of a company’s business on the theory that Starbucks is obligated to open stores and provide jobs.
Then maybe the NLRB can come down and clean the toilets after the junkie vagrants are done with them.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Rocker Rod Stewart Fleeing Los Angeles and Its ‘Toxic Culture’
British rock and pop singer Rod Stewart has become the latest celebrity seeking to flee the Democrat-run city of Los Angeles, as he has relisted his mansion.
Stewart, who is fed up with LA’s “toxic culture,” relisted his mansion with $10 million price increase, according to a report by New York Post.
The 78-year-old rocker had initially listed his home for $70 million six months ago, but upped the price to $80 million in his new listing.
Not too long after Stewart listed his mansion the first time, sources told Daily Mail that he sought to return home to London after becoming sick of the “toxic culture” in Los Angeles.
Stewart reportedly bought the property in 1991 for $12.08 million before having the current 12-bathroom, nine-bedroom mansion constructed by architect Richard Landry.
The mansion includes a double gated entry, a marble-floored speakeasy, a 4,500-square-foot guesthouse, two gyms, a tea room, a dining room, and a lot of “Old World-esque” touches, such as ceiling moldings, medallions, herringbone floors, and Corinthian columns.
The rocker’s home also has a long driveway to the house, several sculptures, a pool, a hot tub, a soccer field, and three landscaped acres. Other residents in the neighborhood reportedly include Justin Bieber, Barry Bonds, Adele, and Denzel Washington.
Nonetheless, Stewart reportedly has “no privacy” in Los Angeles, and traveling between LA and London became too daunting.
These days, “he lives in Europe a lot of the time,” Tomer Fridman of Compass’s the Fridman Group, which is representing Stewart in the sale, told the Times.
Stewart is not the only celebrity to recently decide to leave Los Angeles.
As Breitbart News reported earlier this month, Hollywood mega-star Angelina Jolie has revealed that she is pretty much done living in Los Angeles, declaring, “Hollywood is not a healthy place.”
Also this month, Jennifer Flavin, wife of movie star Sylvester Stallone, discussed the couple’s recent move to Florida from the state of California, saying she just had nothing left in the Golden State.
Earlier this year, iconic Superman actor Dean Cain left his long-time California neighborhood and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada.
In 2021, fashion mogul, model, and tattoo enthusiast Kat Von D announced she was leaving “corrupt” Los Angeles for good, noting that she had bought a home in a small town in Indiana, where she would be reopening her business.
Try the reality that illegal immigrants are routinely given free public housing by the U.S., based on the fact that they are uneducated, unskilled, and largely unemployable. Those are the criteria, and now importing poverty has never been easier. Shockingly, this comes as millions of poor Americans are out in the cold awaiting that housing that the original law was intended to help.
Thus, the tent cities, and by coincidence, the worst of these emerging shantytowns are in blue sanctuary cities loaded with illegal immigrants - Orange County, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York...Is there a connection? At a minimum, it's worth looking at. MONICA SHOWALTER
THE FENTANYL COMES OVER THE OPEN BORDER FROM JOE BIDEN'S CRONIES IN RED CHINA THEN THROUGH NARCOMEX
Ryan Smith, a 36-year-old homeless addict, falls asleep after smoking fentanyl in Los Angeles, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Nearly 2,000 homeless people died in the city from April 2020 to March 2021, a 56% increase from the previous year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Overdose was the leading cause of death, killing more than 700. Jae C. Hong / AP
A NATION IN MELTDOWN AS DEMOCRATS FLOOD THE COUNTRY FROM BORDER TO OPEN BORDER WITH ILLEGALS
THIS IS WHAT THE GLOBALIST NAFTA DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS DONE TO ONE SANCTUARY CITY
I Went To Every Single Homeless Camp In Los Angeles
In a filthy alley behind a Los Angeles doughnut shop, Ryan Smith convulsed in the grips of a fentanyl high — lurching from moments of slumber to bouts of violent shivering on a warm summer day.
When Brandice Josey, another homeless addict, bent down and blew a puff of fentanyl smoke his way in an act of charity, Smith sat up and slowly opened his lip to inhale the vapor as if it was the cure to his problems.
Smith, wearing a grimy yellow T-shirt that said "Good Vibes Only," reclined on his backpack and dozed the rest of the afternoon on the asphalt, unperturbed by the stench of rotting food and human waste that permeated the air.
For too many people strung out on the drug, the sleep that follows a fentanyl hit is permanent. The highly addictive and potentially lethal drug has become a scourge across America and is taking a toll on the growing number of people living on the streets of Los Angeles.
Nearly 2,000 homeless people died in the city from April 2020 to March 2021, a 56% increase from the previous year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. Overdose was the leading cause of death, killing more than 700.
Fentanyl was developed to treat intense pain from ailments like cancer. Use of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that is cheap to produce and is often sold as is or laced in other drugs, has exploded. Because it's 50 times more potent than heroin, even a small dose can be fatal.
It has quickly become the deadliest drug in the nation, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Two-thirds of the 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021 were attributed to synthetic opioids like fentanyl, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
The drug's toll spreads far beyond the streets.
Jennifer Catano, 27, has the names of two children tattooed on her wrists, but she hasn't seen them for several years. They live with her mother.
"My mom doesn't think it's a good idea because she thinks it's gonna hurt the kids because I'm not ready to get rehabilitated," Catano said.
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She has overdosed three times and been through rehab seven or eight times.
"It's scary to get off of it," she said. "The withdrawals are really bad."
Catano wandered around a subway station near MacArthur Park desperate to sell a bottle of Downy fabric softener and a Coleman camping chair she stole from a nearby store.
Drug abuse can be a cause or symptom of homelessness. Both can also intersect with mental illness.
A 2019 report by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found about a quarter of all homeless adults in Los Angeles County had mental illnesses and 14% had a substance use disorder. That analysis only counted people who had a permanent or long-term severe condition. Taking a broader interpretation of the same data, the Los Angeles Times found about 51% had mental illnesses and 46% had substance use disorders.
Billions of dollars are being spent to alleviate homelessness in California but treatment is not always funded.
A controversial bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom could improve that by forcing people suffering from severe mental illness into treatment. But they need to be diagnosed with a certain disorder such as schizophrenia and addiction alone doesn't qualify.
Help is available but it is outpaced by the magnitude of misery on the streets.
Rita Richardson, a field supervisor with LA Door, a city addiction-prevention program that works with people convicted of misdemeanors, hands out socks, water, condoms, snacks, clean needles and flyers at the same hotspots Monday through Friday. She hopes the consistency of her visits will encourage people to get help.
"Then hopefully the light bulb comes on. It might not happen this year. It might not happen next year. It might take several years," said Richardson, a former homeless addict. "My goal is to take them from the dark to the light."
Parts of Los Angeles have become scenes of desperation with men and women sprawled on sidewalks, curled up on benches and collapsed in squalid alleys. Some huddle up smoking the drug, others inject it.
Armando Rivera, 33, blew out white puffs to attract addicts in the alley where Smith was sleeping. He needed to sell some dope to buy more. Those without enough money to support their habit, hovered around him, hoping for a free hit. Rivera showed no mercy.
Catano couldn't sell the chair, but eventually she sold the fabric softener to a street vendor for $5.
It was enough money for another high.
Gavin Newsom, Local Lawmakers Argue over Responsibility of Homelessness in California
California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom and local lawmakers argue over who should be responsible for the homelessness plaguing the state, as the governor threatened to withhold funds from those who dispute liability, according to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ).
The Democrat governor and local government officials, including many from his own political party, are arguing over the responsibility for the lack of progress in battling the ongoing homelessness problem across America’s most populated state.
The report explained that Newsom recently placed a temporary hold on $1 billion of state grants that were meant for city and county homelessness programs as he rejected the proposals from the officials that outlined how they would spend the money. He said the proposal was inadequate, even though it would have reportedly reduced homelessness statewide by two percent from 2020 to 2024.
People who work in state politics say Mr. Newsom’s policy moves and comments echo many Californians’ rising frustration over housing costs and homelessness, and indicate a willingness by the governor, who recently won re-election, to pick fights with local leaders to try to get results in his second term.
Mayors and county officials, meanwhile, have said they need the Newsom administration to provide reliable, recurring revenue streams and a cohesive statewide framework to address the issue. Instead, they said, most state money comes in one-time allocations with little guidance.
Many mayors were also rankled when Mr. Newsom told the Los Angeles Times he froze the homelessness funds because local leaders needed to “deliver damn results,” adding that he would be willing to play “mayor of California” if they didn’t.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, talks to Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti during a news conference at a joint state and federal COVID-19 vaccination site set up on the campus of California State University of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, on Feb. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
However, WSJ explained that local officials had said that withholding the money they were already expecting is making the problem worse. On the matter, Los Angeles Democrat Mayor Eric Garcetti said, “Lives are on the line, and we can’t afford for this work to get mired in more politics.”
The WSJ said that according to advocates, “Problems including bureaucratic slowdowns and community resistance have made it difficult to deliver services.” At the same time, researchers also said that “even as some people are successfully sheltered, others will keep falling into homelessness until housing becomes more affordable.”
Newsom recently met with over 100 local leaders and agreed at the time to release the funds he put a hold on if each jurisdiction agreed to submit a better proposal by the end of November. According to a spokesman for the governor, 21 jurisdictions had agreed and were expected to receive the frozen funds sometime this week.
For years in California, there have been disagreements over who should be in charge of the homelessness problem, as the state reportedly has over 116,000 residents sleeping on the streets — the most in the United States — in addition to being one of the most expensive housing markets across the county.
The WSJ also noted that under Newsom, the state saw a roughly 15 percent increase in the homeless population since 2019, despite having the most significant funding increase to fight the problem. In fact, since the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, the state has committed around $15 billion towards homelessness, according to reports. Additionally, some majority cities like Los Angeles and San Francisco also raised taxes to help combat the problem as well.
The state’s homelessness problem also comes as Newson again reaffirmed his promise to Politico that he will not try to challenge President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election, despite his efforts of building a massive digital operation before the 2022 midterms.
In this Sept. 13, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden, center, smiles to the crowd as he is flanked by California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Jennifer Siebel Newsom at a rally ahead of the California gubernatorial recall election in Long Beach, CA. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Additionally, while the Democrat governor has been facing problems in his own state, he spent time during his reelection bid, which he largely ignored, attacking Republican governors who were running for reelection and are potential 2024 presidential candidates, such as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. He even spent money running negative ads in Florida.
Over the last five years, Newsom has won three elections in America’s most populated state. He won his gubernatorial race in 2018 and 2022 and had to go through a recall election in 2021.
Over the course of a single week, 17 convenience stores were robbed at gunpoint in the Democrat-run city of San Diego, which sits in the Democrat-run state of California.
“San Diego Police said that over the past six weeks, several armed ‘take-over style’ robberies have occurred around the county,” reports San Diego 7. “Police believe that at least 10 of those robberies are committed by the same group and say the same group may be responsible for other robberies.”
That group is a gang of five thugs who flood the store in ski masks brandishing guns.
“Police describe the suspects as young men, possibly between 19-25 years old, wearing hooded sweatshirts and masks,” the report adds, “and are said to enter the stores in groups brandishing guns at store clerks while demanding money and products.”
So far, no one has been hurt.
Who would like to bet that if these guys are ever captured more than one will have a record out to here, or even be out on bail or released without bail?
What’s happening to San Diego is what happens wherever Democrats are in charge who refuse to enforce the law. It’s the Old West in these cities. No one’s afraid to commit crimes because no one believes there will ever be any serious accountability. The second point you can extract from this story is what I’ve always said… If there are 105 crimes, that doesn’t mean you have to put 105 people in prison. Generally, a small group of people commit a majority of crimes. If you put 11 people in prison, you will stop 85 of those crimes.
And, as usual, who are the victims? The working poor, the clerks behind the register just barely getting by working a shitty shift at a shitty job for shitty pay in a city that has decided police officers are a bigger danger to public safety than violent criminals.
San Diego has a serious crime problem. As of 2022, violent crime was up almost 11 percent, property crime was up 13.6 percent, and overall crime was up 13.1 percent.
San Diego hate crime reports jumped — this is not a typo — 77 percent(!) — proving once again that America’s hate and intolerance occur almost exclusively where Democrats live and govern.
Out where normal people live, out here in MAGA Country, the water, air, and streets are safe and clean, and people of all backgrounds live together in relative harmony.
Gravel road to a traditional American farm with a red wooden barn in a rolling rural landscape in autumn. Beautiful fall foliage. Woodstock, VT, USA (AlbertPego/Getty Images).
Living with violent crime is a choice, and in America, you get what you vote for. If you want to decrease crime, all you have to do is vote for people who put violent criminals in prison. It really is that easy. Dummies.
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