By Mike Huckabee
July 14, 2020
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NOT CRIME...VIOLENT CRIME
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s latest upchuck of cockamamie condescension was her claim that Republicans don’t understand what it’s like to live in poor neighborhoods (yeah, none of us grew up poor!) and that crime is up in New York City because unemployed people need to shoplift a loaf of bread to feed their families (and apparently, loot a TV from Target, then shoot a few people on their way home.) She smugly said she had to “connect the dots” for us, proving that even connecting dots is beyond her capabilities.
For the record, the crime that’s up in New York City is violent crime. Shootings are up by 130% from just one year ago. This is not a result of poverty but of the idiotic policies of Mayor Bill DeBlasio, who has systematically destroyed the great city that Rudy Giuliani rescued from the failed leftist policies of DeBlasio’s mentor, David Dinkins. DeBlasio has dismantled all the effective policing that made the city safe again, demoralized the police, emboldened lawbreakers to ignore the law and attack police, encouraged rioters, and sparked a 400% spike in applications for retirements among NYPD officers. In this regard, he’s turning the Big Apple into yet another Democrat-run war zone, like Chicago. Except Chicago’s last Republican mayor left office in 1931. It’s taken DeBlasio only one-and-a-half terms to cause similar damage.
That spike in violent crime includes senseless shootings of innocent people, many of them black. The latest heartbreaking murder came Sunday night when two gunmen opened fire on a group having a cookout in a park. They injured three men and killed Davell Gardner – a one-year-old child who was sitting in his stroller when a bullet struck him in the abdomen. In that same weekend, 35 people were shot in 28 incidents, including other young boys of 12 and 15.
DeBlasio’s response to this has been to cut $1.5 billion from the police budget while taunting the President by painting a “Black Lives Matter” mural across from Trump Tower (a divisive political statement at taxpayer expense during a financial crisis.) If black lives really mattered to DeBlasio, he’d do something to stop so many of them from being violently ended, like that of Davell Gardner. If we are all to know George Floyd’s name, then we should definitely know his, too.
As for AOC’s ludicrous assertions, Kim Hirsch at the Victory Girls blog notes that a 2014 study by the University of North Dakota found that poverty does not have a significant effect on violent crime in the US. But as Ms. Hirsch notes, crime has an effect on poverty, driving businesses out of high crime neighborhoods and depriving residents of jobs.
On a lighter note, Ms. Hirsch also points out that the dose of “reality” that AOC thinks she’s giving all us Republicans who don’t know what it’s like to be poor was actually cribbed from watching “Breaking Bad” on TV. She even missed the point of that show (nobody in it turned to crime to buy food, and far from glamorizing crime, everyone either died or had their lives destroyed.) I’d also like to suggest that she got the idea of criminals being guilty only of stealing a loaf of bread from the Broadway musical of “Les Miserables.” The only connection between that and real life in New York City today is that nobody is less miserable since Bill DeBlasio became mayor.
NO RESPECT
What a surprise: the same Democrat Senator who thought that men should just shut up about sexual accusations even if they think they’re innocent and have no due process rights now declares that President Trump’s base is full of white supremacists.
So she has no respect for the rights of the male half of the population, and I assume she thinks that many of the women who voted for Trump are white supremacists. I calculate that we’re now down to about 25% of the US population that she regards as human beings worthy of being allowed to have any rights at all. How low can she go?
MORE FROM THE CHINESE WHISTLEBLOWER
Here’s more from the Hong Kong virologist who fled to the US and is in hiding because she’s blowing the whistle on what China knew and covered up about the COVID-19 (Chinese) coronavirus, and the WHO’s aid in covering it up.
Yes, I hope that this will help dispel the ridiculous, China-promoted notion that calling this a “Chinese virus” is somehow racist. I think it’s just giving credit where credit is due.
At a fundraiser, Joe Biden quoted what he called an “old Chinese proverb” that was actually a quote from mass-murdering Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong.
I know most Republicans will be jumping on Joe for quoting a communist totalitarian, but that’s hardly news, considering how many of them are his campaign advisers and supporters these days.
So I’ll just point out two interesting side notes: (1.) Why does it come so naturally to Joe to admire the wisdom of Chinese dictators? (2.) Can you imagine the media reaction if Trump had quoted a dictator and claimed it was an old proverb?
VIDEO OF THE DAY
Video of the Day: In Portland, a masked Antifa protester tried to threaten a black motorist by opening his car door. It did not go well for the protester.
NBA ONLINE STORE ENCOURAGES HATE SPEECH, BANS CRITICISM OF CHINA
The official online store of the NBA allows people to order NBA jerseys with political phrases such as “Black Lives Matter” on them. But you can’t order jerseys with certain political phrases that the NBA apparently frowns on, such as “Free Hong Kong.” This has led conservatives to test the store to see what they’ll allow on an NBA jersey.
So far, while rejecting any criticism of China, the NBA store has reportedly allowed orders of jerseys reading, “Kill Cops,” “Defund Police,” “Beware of Jews,” “Ban Gypsies,” “End Taiwan,” “Burn Jews,” “Enslave Tibet” and “Cancel Israel,” among others. Of course, this could simply mean they don’t have any software in place to censor any phrases other than those that criticize China. As if that were an excuse.
All of this makes for a good setup for this commentary by Glenn Beaton, titled, “I Don’t Miss Professional Sports, Do You?” The NBA and NFL may have to learn the hard lesson that the TV and movie industry stubbornly refuse to acknowledge: “Get woke, go broke.”
BLAMING REPUBLICANS
Don’t know how I missed this story from July 1st, but just so you know: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blamed Republicans for Russia annexing Crimea in 2014 when Obama was President. Boy, we’re to blame for riots in solidly Democratic Minneapolis, for China unleashing a virus on the world, and for what Russia did under Obama. Is there anything Republicans CAN’T do?!
DAILY BIBLE VERSE
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