Archive for 2023

LOOK, I DO UNDERSTAND THE POOR GUY. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE BEING THE ONE THROWN UNDER THE BUS BECAUSE THE OTHER CORRUPTOCRATS NEED TO APPEAR IMPARTIAL:  Question for Sen. Bob Menendez about that cash…

I mean, it’s not like the other democrats aren’t doing it, because they can, and because they’ve perverted the press and justice not to expose them. But someone needed to be made a show of and I guess Menendez failed to keep maps of where bodies are buried. Or something.

IS THE ATF GOING TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN FOAM SWORDS NOW?  LARPing and Violent Extremism.

Dear FBI, not everything you fail to understand is a threat. Unless reality is a threat to you now.

GOODER AND HARDER, PHILADELPHIA: Shocking moment brazen masked kids loot Footlocker, Lululemon and Apple stores as Philadelphia descends into anarchy — with footage showing cops brawling with thieves and punching one in the face.

Flashback: First homicides, now shoplifting plague Philadelphia thanks to radical DA.

First, it was homicides. Then, it was carjackings. And now, it is shoplifting. Philadelphia is an absolute mess. The city’s government has been a complete disaster in protecting its law-abiding citizens and business owners from those who repeatedly cause harm. And, once again, much of the blame belongs to the city’s radical, left-wing, Gorge Soros-funded, ineffective District Attorney Larry Krasner.

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Consider the discrepancy between the arrests and charges for retail theft compared to the number of incidents. Between 2017 and 2021, the number of reported retail theft incidents in Philadelphia increased by 21%. However, during that same period, the Inquirer reported arrests and charges for retail theft dropped by nearly 70%. It’s a devastating shift for Philadelphia retail owners and stems from the district attorney not doing his job.

Some of the victims of this crime wave spoke to the Inquirer about their frustrations. It’s heartbreaking to realize that city officials caused their plight, and there is nothing they can do about it.

At a CVS in Philadelphia’s Center City section, one of the employees lamented the steady stream of criminals. She called the theft “constant and frustrating.”

“All we can do is watch. The policy is you can’t touch them,” the employee told the Inquirer. “They come in with bags, fill the bags. They leave. The same people come in, day in and day out.”

“People are coming in and stealing things like there’s no tomorrow,” said an owner of a 7-Eleven in South Philadelphia. “The district attorney says unless it is over $500, it’s not shoplifting. My God.”

As Tom Cotton wrote in 2021: Recall, Remove & Replace Every Last Soros Prosecutor.

TEXANS OWN GUNS, AND THE WASHINGTON POST IS NOT AMUSED:

OPEN THEAD: Let the fun begin!

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

Shot: Colin Kaepernick compares NFL Draft process and training camp to slavery.

—Fox News, October 30th, 2021.

Chaser:

In accordance with the prophecy: Jets File Restraining Order Against Colin Kaepernick.

—Headline, the Babylon Bee, September 14th.

JOHN NOLTE: Weekend Box Office Crashes to 2023 Low.

The weekend box office grossed just $48.9 million this weekend. That’s the total box office. That’s all the movies in every theater in North America. That means only around 6.2 million North Americans bothered to go to the movies this weekend.

So what was the problem?

Well, who asked for a fourth chapter of the Expendables? Hey, I love Stallone, Statham, and Lundgren, but the third chapter, which came out all the way back in 2014, bombed. Truth be told, I enjoyed the original franchise more and more as it went along. The third chapter was my favorite. Still, I was not clamoring for part four. In fact, I doubt I’ll ever watch part four. The lack of stars in part four doesn’t help. Expend4bles feels like those Dirty Dozen TV sequels that came out in the eighties. They’d bring back one or two of the original movie’s aging stars — Ernest Borgnine or Telly Savalas — and replace the rest with TV actors.

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Hollywood is the only industry with an entire media ecosystem protecting it from any talk about its overall product quality.

Well, outside of NBCABCPBSCBSCNN and their coverage of the Democratic Party in DC.

TARGET: NOT SO BLUE WHEN THE CHIPS ARE DOWN. “Target Corporation has been even more woke than most large companies, but there are limits. Target has been vocal about the damage that organized retail theft is doing to its bottom line. Now the other shoe has dropped. . . . That is pretty blunt. If you, blue city, can’t maintain order, we are pulling out. But what I would still like to see is major retailers like Target explicitly getting behind law enforcement, and abandoning their (most likely insincere) wokism. That would really do the country some good.”