HOW LOW CAN BLUE CITIES SINK? [merged threads]

[Boiler 45,441]

Please note the correct terminology for Riots is Large Gathering, will in Chicago anyway.

 

 

[TBoneTX 45,244]

10 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Please note the correct terminology for Riots is Large Gathering

To be most precise, it should be "Mostly Peaceful Large Gathering."

[TBoneTX 45,244]

Stockton 7-11 clerks have had enough with shoplifters

 

You may have seen some of this video circulating on Twitter/X yesterday.  Today we have a bit more insight into where this happened.  It was at a 7-11 store in Stockton, CA.  [...]

 

https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2023/08/03/stockton-7-11-clerks-have-had-enough-with-shoplifters-n569112

[Dashinka 24,478]

20 hours ago, Dashinka said:

The inevitable response.  Now this is progress.  I suspect soft-on-crime Bragg (or the prosecutor where it happened as it was not clear if in Manhattan or another borough) will prosecute these two to the fullest extent of the law.

 

 

Correction, apparently this occurred in the People’s Republic of California.

 

https://nypost.com/2023/08/02/7-eleven-workers-beat-cali-thief-for-stealing-shelves-of-tobacco/

 

 

[TBoneTX 45,244]

Cities are sinking under the weight of their own stupidity

 

Once upon a time, cities were bursting with vitality.  For out-of-towners, they were meccas of shopping and entertainment.  They were nerve centers of business.

Today, they're places to become a crime statistic, view vermin-infested encampments, and silently mourn the demise of what was once something great.  [...]

 

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/aug/5/cities-are-sinking-under-weight-of-their-own-stupi/

[Boiler 45,441]

Of course they are

 

 

[Dashinka 24,478]

5 hours ago, Boiler said:

Of course they are

 

 

Not surprising as that is the Democrat plan, and they cannot tolerate people fighting back.

[TBoneTX 45,244]

Chicago Mayor Says That Due To Negative Connotations We Should Stop Using The Word 'Chicago'

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-mayor-says-that-due-to-negative-connotations-we-should-stop-using-the-word-chicago

[Dashinka 24,478]

7 hours ago, TBoneTX said:

Chicago Mayor Says That Due To Negative Connotations We Should Stop Using The Word 'Chicago'

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/chicago-mayor-says-that-due-to-negative-connotations-we-should-stop-using-the-word-chicago

I guess you get what you vote for, but who would have thought the voters in Chicago would vote for someone worse than Lightfoot.

[Boiler 45,441]

I saw this on the TV last night, such a damning indictment.

 

Air horns and moving trucks: How Oakland, California, residents are facing a surge in crime https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/08/us/oakland-crime-increase-naacp-residents/index.html

 

The upswing in crime has forced some Oakland residents, including Kristin Cook, to flee to other states. Cook watched with tears in her eyes as a moving pod packed with all her family’s belongings was loaded onto a flatbed truck.

Although she’s lived in Oakland her whole life, Cook said she’s now moving to Texas for the sake of her son.

“I love Oakland. … I can’t take it anymore,” she said. “I got to the point I was too scared to leave my house.”

She said the rise in carjackings has made her scared to take drives at night, a pastime she once enjoyed.

“My son is about to start driving. … I’m terrified my son is gonna be killed at a stop sign because he’s driving an Impala, and I just can’t, I can’t risk it.”

[TBoneTX 45,244]

"She now has three air horns and five security cameras around her home."

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Not even in some third-world countries are 3 air horns and 5 cameras needed.

[TBoneTX 45,244]

Getting it gooder and harder in the San Francisco Bay Area

 

[...] When we talk about a broken political system, it may be that people who are unable to change their voting patterns no matter what happens to them, even if they are driven out of their cities or terrified of going out at night, may be what makes it broken.  [...]

 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/getting_it_gooder_and_harder_in_the_san_francisco_bay_area.html

[Dashinka 24,478]

Ahh, progress!

 

Gavin Newsom wants to make America Oakland

 

https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/08/08/gavin-newsom-wants-to-make-america-oakland-n569960

[Dashinka 24,478]

Novel, and apparently effective.  How long before the "progressives" deem it inappropriate, or racist, or whatever else they can think of to continue their regressive trend.

 

WATCH: Los Angeles 7-11 Proprietor Uses Toto's 'Africa' to Keep Homeless Encampments Away From the Store

 

And that’s just *inside* the store. Especially in places like Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, and Sacramento (not so much in the more sane areas of the state, which do exist, and I can’t list them because I’ve been sworn to secrecy), potential customers first have to navigate past the “unhoused” and even some unhoused communal living centers (a/k/a homeless encampments) to enter places like 7-11, AM/PM, or even CVS and Walgreens.

 

Nobody wants to actually physically confront these people, because sadly many are mentally ill, and many are violent. And, while COVID didn’t kill them in big numbers, they’re not exactly living in hygienic circumstances. If the cops do come to clear them out, they’re usually back soon. So the best solution is for them to leave voluntarily, or to make your establishment an unattractive location. Promises of housing and services haven’t been very effective in enticing folks to leave their tents or shopping carts, and people who’ve erected barriers to prevent folks from sleeping on the sidewalk have had their hands slapped by code enforcement bureaucrats.

 

As far as I know, though, nobody’s tried blasting one song on repeat, 24/7, from a store’s outdoor speakers, but that’s working for a 7-11 in West Los Angeles. Damon Packard, who lives near the store, wrote about it on his public Facebook page on Saturday, saying:

 

https://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2023/08/08/watch-los-angeles-7-11-proprietor-uses-totos-africa-to-keep-homeless-encampments-away-from-the-store-n789782

[Boiler 45,441]

I seem to remember someone found that Classical music worked well.