Posted on 12/29/2020 5:24:19 AM PST by EyesOfTX
Here’s what happens when you defund the police. – We’ve seen examples from communist Democrat-run cities all over the country now. From New York to Los Angeles and from Minneapolis to Seattle, cities whose Democrat leaders have taken action to cut major chunks out of their police force budgets are very predictably seeing massive spikes in violent crimes as a result.
Things are no different in Portland, where the communist-Democrat city council cut $15 million of the police budget during the summer, even as violent riots were plaguing the city’s downtown district and surrounding neighborhoods. That action and the general lack of support for the Portland PD from communist Democrat Mayor Ted Wheeler has led now to a spike in violent crimes and a growing exodus of officers from the Department.
Things have gotten so bad that the Portland PD is now resorting to begging for help from the general community to “break the cycle of violence” in the city.
From a story at DailyWire:
Portland, Oregon, police are begging residents of the city to help “break the cycle of violence” as the number of murders and shootings in the city have skyrocketed.
Portland has been home to violence for months, with an ongoing, nightly demonstration by “anti-fascist” elements, that has often resulted in significant property damage and multiple arrests. But now, the police say, the number of shootings and murders in the city 2020 are nearly double those of 2019, according to Fox News.
“At least 850 shootings have been reported in Portland as of Dec. 24, with 59 reported so far this month, Portland Police Bureau (PPB) statistics show. There were 33 shootings reported in December of last year,” Fox News notes. “As of Christmas Eve, this year’s shootings had surpassed last year’s by more than 116%, with 393 shootings reported in all of 2019, statistics show.”
The numbers have Portland police, who have been the target of one of the most aggressive efforts to defund and disband law enforcement anywhere in the country, pleading with the community to step in and provide support.
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Man, who could have possibly seen any of that coming? Oh, wait…
Obviously, there is nothing about this that is funny other than Ted Wheeler’s personal clueless hipster demeanor. This is real life stuff, and real lives are being snuffed out in Portland and other Democrat cities due to these insane policy decisions. And make no mistake about this: Democrat politicians know the certain impacts of these insane policy choices, but make them anyway out of the insane belief that proper policing is inherently racist.
Put more bluntly, they are knowingly sacrificing the lives of thousands of Americans for purely political reasons. That’s the truth.
Hard question of the day. – Name a single country that taxes its citizens and sends the money to the United States of America.
Go ahead. I’ll wait.
News you will not see on CNN. – Last week, the corrupt news media ignored claims of spousal abuse by the wife of Georgia Democrat Senate nominee Raphael Warnock. This week, the corrupt news media will studiously ignore this story:
From a story at DailyWire:
A man came forward and went on the record on Monday about alleged abuse that he suffered as a 12-year-old while attending a church camp that was overseen by Reverend Raphael Warnock.
Anthony Washington, now 30, told The Washington Free Beacon that counselors allegedly threw urine on him and locked him outside of his cabin, forcing him to sleep outside overnight. Washington told the publication that what allegedly happened to him at Camp Farthest Out resulted in a 2003 lawsuit that he says led to a large financial settlement.
The Free Beacon reported:
Warnock has faced scrutiny over his 2002 arrest for allegedly obstructing a child abuse investigation by Maryland State Police that centered on the camp’s treatment of children. Washington’s account is buttressed by records from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, obtained by the Free Beacon earlier this month, which indicated that campers were routinely left unsupervised; staffers were not subject to required criminal background check; and at least five cases of child abuse or neglect were brought against the camp’s director, who was ultimately forced to resign.
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This is the quality of human being Georgia Democrats want to put in the U.S. Senate. Ugh.
The precursor to China’s “Social Credit System.” – Coming to America soon as part of the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset, which China Joe Potato Head Biden supports: Within the next year, you will find yourself unable to travel via public transportation or attend theaters and other large public gatherings unless you can show proof that you have been vaccinated for COVID-19.
Whenever anyone would predict this barely 9 months ago, corrupt mainstream news reporters and talking heads would call them “alarmists” and “conspiracy theorists.” Yesterday, the corrupt hacks at CNN published a story about the coming new requirement that lays it all out as if it’s all just the most normal thing in the world.
Here’s an excerpt from that story, headlined…
If you want to travel next year, you may need a vaccine passport San Francisco (CNN Business)Now that coronavirus vaccines are starting to roll out in the US and abroad, many people may be dreaming of the day when they can travel, shop and go to the movies again. But in order to do those activities, you may eventually need something in addition to the vaccine: a vaccine passport application.
Several companies and technology groups have begun developing smartphone apps or systems for individuals to upload details of their Covid-19 tests and vaccinations, creating digital credentials that could be shown in order to enter concert venues, stadiums, movie theaters, offices, or even countries. The Common Trust Network, an initiative by Geneva-based nonprofit The Commons Project and the World Economic Forum, has partnered with several airlines including Cathay Pacific, JetBlue, Lufthansa, Swiss Airlines, United Airlines and Virgin Atlantic, as well as hundreds of health systems across the United States and the government of Aruba. The CommonPass app created by the group allows users to upload medical data such as a Covid-19 test result or, eventually, a proof of vaccination by a hospital or medical professional, generating a health certificate or pass in the form of a QR code that can be shown to authorities without revealing sensitive information. For travel, the app lists health pass requirements at the points of departure and arrival based on your itinerary. “You can be tested every time you cross a border. You cannot be vaccinated every time you cross a border,” Thomas Crampton, chief marketing and communications officer for The Commons Project, told CNN Business. He stressed the need for a simple and easily transferable set of credentials, or a “digital yellow card,” referring to the paper document generally issued as proof of vaccination. [End]
Hey, CNN, who’s the “conspiracy theorist” now?
As I have said for 9 months now, every restriction on our daily lives, every mandate a state, federal or local politician, every pronouncement from the little menace Anthony Fauci has been designed to normalize enhanced government control of our daily lives. None of these things has anything to do with controlling the virus; none of them are based on anything resembling “science” or “data.”
It’s all about government control.
Think about it this way: If any of these restrictions were about a science-based or data-supported effort to control the virus, why is it that the state with the most strenuous restrictions – California – is suffering the most severe outbreak? Why is it that the state with the least strenuous restrictions – South Dakota – is experiencing the least severe outbreak?
This is all about government control, and if China Joe Potato Head is installed in the presidency, our freedoms could be irrevocably lost.
PSA: If you clear your sidewalk of snow in your bathrobe, using a flamethrower while drinking a beer and smoking a cigar, you might be a redneck.
That is all.
Retire! Protect yourself! And let the place burn to the ground!
I'm not speaking to the efficacy (or not) of a COVID-19 vaccine, so please no flames.
https://www.uscis.gov/tools/designated-civil-surgeons/vaccination-requirements
Under the immigration laws of the United States, a foreign national who applies for an immigrant visa abroad, or who seeks to adjust status to a permanent resident while in the United States, is required to receive vaccinations to prevent the following diseases:
Mumps
Measles
Rubella
Polio
Tetanus and Diphtheria Toxoids
Pertussis
Haemophilus influenzae type B
Hepatitis B
Any other vaccine-preventable diseases recommended by the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices
If the harris administration takes power, the nation will quickly devolve into this same lawlessness. Armed citizens will become a rule of thumb. Before the next election, the population will be rid of blm’s and antifa’s and the minority democrats will be very few.
OK, here's some help:
Tell them "I Vas Only Folloink Ordahs"
That should do it.
Portland gets no sympathy from me. They reelected Wuss Wheeler and so are responsible for all his failures. He deliberately walked with the rioters and got a whiff of tear gas, so he could proclaim to the world that he was “tear gassed.” He then blamed the feds and Trump.
They tolerated the “autonomous zone” and the thefts and the assaults.
The people of Portland get what they deserve.
Defunding the police MEANS allowing criminals to do what they want.
In countries like Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland etc the crime rate would stay extremely low and stable with no police. It’s the nature and character of the people. Our major cities are inhabited by the absolute scum of the earth.
Exactly, if the people in Portland want to defund the police, give it to them....
If I were a Mayor of a smaller city near Portland I would be recruiting Portland Police 24/7, you get a ready trained officer who is ready to work...
All those who can retire should go ahead and do so...
Let the place turn into total anarchy while the rest of use sit back and watch it burn......
At one level, I believe the residents of places that vote for these DIMocRAT leftist nitwits deserve what they get. Self-loathing oafs! More popcorn!!!
The cops just need to arrest the DA that keeps releasing those they arrest...and face again the next day and the next day and the next.
The Portland Police are getting what they voted for and what they deserve.
There are no good guys in this fight
Looks like Portland is working at becoming Mogadishu, except without mooselimbs. I no zero sympathy for anyone living there. It is what they want. For those few that didn’t want it, there is a Kenny Roger’s song that addresses their situation:
“You got to know when to hold ‘em,
Know when to fold ‘em,
Know when to walk away,
And know when to run”
All of this is the result of Black privilege.
“let the place burn to the ground!”
I agree. Let these cities perform their little experiment and descend into chaos. That will serve as a warning to the rest of the country. All we should do about it is make sure the truth of what happens gets out.
Okay EOT, how about: Name a single country that borrows money, and then sends it to the United States of America?
Just 15 days, they said.
Just wear the mask, they said.
Just get the vaccine, they say.
Just take off your clothes and walk into that room over there for a "shower", they'll say...
Los Angeles they cannot figure out which bathroom to use.
San Francisco they no longer use bathrooms at all.
Portland decriminalized drugs.
But Seattle decriminalized everything...
Outstanding, professional style, documentary video produced by Seattle’s KOMO television regarding the hideous, criminally devolving city and its idiotic leadership. 1:30 minutes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WijoL3Hy_Bw
I agree with others in the thread that this destruction is the goal for every large city in the USA, and under Harris (Obama) it will only be worse. The west coast is just the where the far left got a foothold first. In the video they kindly call decriminalization a social experiment- I call it intentional and EVIL, what it is. The USA is scheduled to devolve into lawlessness. Americans are the people who voted for the Man of Lawlessness, twice. (BObama)
It's not just about passports for foreign travel. They are talking about internal passports (i.e. "Pappiere, Bitte!").
And the list of public venues will be expanded to include stores, churches, parks, the sidewalk, roads. Count on it.
This is Revelation 13:18 stuff. The frog is already half boiled.
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