@ConceptualJames – The top rated New York Times comment right now. Most of top comments are like this. New Yorkers are PISSED. Their city leadership and DA Bragg have failed them unbelievably.
Just not enough to stop voting for it.
@ConceptualJames – The top rated New York Times comment right now. Most of top comments are like this. New Yorkers are PISSED. Their city leadership and DA Bragg have failed them unbelievably.
Just not enough to stop voting for it.
Oh look, a Normie noticed something.
We should put up a monument.
And offer a participation trophy.
“Participation trophies” might actually help. Look at the last Canadian election; approx 50% of eligible voters bothered to vote and Trudeau got about 30% of that, so he was elected with less than 20% of the electorate. Having 5 or more political parties doesn’t help either. And, these idiots are drooling to implement proportional representation. Personally, I subscribe to Mark Twain’s edict that, “If voting actually mattered, they wouldn’t let us do it.”. This, from about 150 years ago!
“Just not enough to stop voting for it.” That’s the problem in a nutshell. If one definition of insanity is doing the same (failing) thing over and over, expecting different results, this is beyond insanity and requires a new word. Suicanity?
I think the assumption that real humans are still voting for this may need to be examined, post 2020. Even here in Canada, it doesn’t add up. (See Chinese interference in the election for reference.) Yes, some people are that stupid. But a majority? More than half?
NYC is wildly corrupt in all other details of government. The notion that elections are not corrupt doesn’t pass the giggle test. So now they are going to jail “vigilantes” for defending themselves and others from -actual violent lunatics- freely wandering public spaces? We’re at “call 911 and die, prole.”
Bringing us to the place where the rubber really meets the road. When you can’t even pretend to vote anymore, who you gonna call?
Coming soon to a Toronto near you, if it hasn’t already.
I agree. I am not at all sure most elections are fair and honest. When people appear to be voting against their own best interests, it is a signal that something is amiss.
Yup.
I’m not sure how long we’ve been living under the illusion of a republic instead of living in a republic, but the last few years have really ripped the mask away.
America is either going to transition into a full-on totalitarian state (and honestly, at this point I think we’re about halfway there), or there’s going to be a revolution. Before anyone jumps on me, I’m not advocating anything – just making an observation.
It’s a very sad state of affairs.
The real question is what will be the pivotal moment that triggers the flash point.
The commies have done a great job of destabilizing and sowing destruction on so many fronts as to cause confusion and helplessness. So it feels daunting to take on the leviathan. But they are the aggressors, and will continue their push to crush resistance to their agenda.
The main hurdle for the commies in implementing their newest version of utopia is 2A and core red states. That’s where the rubber will meet the road.
Hard to say but I’ve some of these people and they are seemingly immune to logic and common sense and unable to believe their own lying eyes. If the recipe says chocolate cake and they get shit, it can’t be the recipe, can it? Nah. I’ll try again.
Look at Chicago, they got rid of Lightfoot and picked someone worse. Do you really think that wasn’t the actual result? It’s not like they had any great choices, in the first place. Controlling the nominating process used to be almost foolproof. However, somehow Trump beat the bank. They are trying even harder to make sure it doesn’t happen again and we get another Pierre Delecto type.
Oh, I agree. I’ve seen many myself, they make zero sense. They certainly exist. But, they exist in relatively small numbers. When you look at mass-market anything, the Woker it is the worse it sells. Current beer uproar shows the reality: Wokesters are vastly outnumbered. Bigly, even.
So look at Chicago’s election, then look at the beer thing, and the NYC subway thing, and see that one of those things is not like the others. Lightfoot and whoever the new moron is got voted in by the dead. We don’t know what the living voted for, their votes were not counted.
Trump was so wildly popular in 2016 that he beat the margin of fraud. In 2020 they printed more ballots for the dead so he “lost” to the barely living cadaver, #LetsGoBrandon. In 2024 if they run #LetsGoBrandon again, even if he expires in September, he will still win.
And then I guess we will see.
Chicago is still run by the Chicago machine made up of the unions and the gangs, New York seems to be run by the ghosts of Tammany Hall, both are corrupt.
“ NYC is wildly corrupt in all other details of government. The notion that elections are not corrupt doesn’t pass the giggle test.”
THIS EXACTLY. And what I regularly communicate to people who think the Dems don’t outright steal elections at every opportunity. They’re corrupt in everything they do, but we are to assume they strictly play by the rules when it comes to elections? The one thing that ensures the corruption continues uninterrupted? Please.
They really don’t make the connection between leftist policies and the results. It’s why we get libtard governments here most of the time. Libtard voters in Toronto boot out the bastards when it gets too bad and once it’s cleaned up we get pm little potato to destroy it again.
But, when your voting choice is between a lilly-livered bedwetter with a blue tie and another one with a red tie, the problems aren’t going to get resolved. Increasingly, this is the case. So I can only conclude that voters of all stripes are not angry enough to change things.
‘‘I don’t care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating’ (Boss Tweed)
Your new job is to go find Boss Tweed 2023 and put the fear of the Almighty in him. It is starting to not matter so much how you do it.
The problem is that none of these vulnerable yet well off people stop and ask these menacing people “what can I do to help?, Are you hungry, do you need food?”
All of these problems can be solved with just a few questions and some good will.
That’s what they think they’re doing when they vote democrat.
I’ll make you a deal.
I’ll pay for the first round of social services to get them cleaned up and back on their feet.
You pay for the 2nd, the 3rd, the 10th, the 28th, the 54th rounds and everything in between.
Absolutely. Just be kind to the frothing lunatic who is screaming he is going to kill you and waving a huge knife. Your goodness will be rewarded.
Probably in Heaven.
Well, I think the idea is to find the lunatic and be kind to him before, or just as, the frothing starts. A rather more defensible position. But not, I should stress, necessarily practicable or realistic.
The actual idea is that only unionized public employees are authorized to use force, and that citizens are supposed to just ‘shelter in place’ aka die. Until the crazy person is restrained by said authorized persons, who may take a couple of days to show up. No hitting back, because that’s a member of a protected social group.
But they can’t really say that part out loud, so they make the “moralistic” argument instead. I put that in scare quotes because (as everyone knows, at some level) a moral person has both the right and the -responsibility- to defend themselves from attack.
Everybody seems to forget that responsibility part these days, but it doesn’t go away just because you ignore it. Like gravity, it comes back and reminds you.
The expectation of the government class is that when confront by a lunatic, you are expect to retreat away from him.
Of course, what is never answered is where you retreat to in a subway car
Phantom.
“member of a protected social group”..the word you seek is “Client”.
We tax payers are just an annoyance,the bread and butter clients who provide the need and justification for the “Helpers” are their very best friends.
The Cops,the Courts and all the Do-Good agencies need their deranged demented street comrades.
They don’t need the tax payers.
Only solution I’ve got..
Open Carry for all tax payers.
All dependents,including police and security guards employed by government, forbidden lethal force.
“Well, I think the idea is to find the lunatic and be kind to him before, or just as, the frothing starts. A rather more defensible position. But not, I should stress, necessarily practicable or realistic.”
There is no realistic way to deal “kindly” with the mentally ill.
Yes. There are enough stupid people to keep voting for this idiocy. Right here in Alberta the NDP has a realistic chance to form the next government. Again.
The problem with success is it attracts and breeds parasites. We have had it too easy for too long, and have no sense what fighting for survival looks like. We are about to re-learn it.
I think you took the black pill.
When federal bureaucrats and media people are walking around saying things like “foreign interference in elections,” despite the fact that the government literally bought the mass media outright, you can’t still be making the “people are stupid” argument.
Yes, stupid people exist. Yes, some people did vote for the Pony because he has nice hair. But no, once you add “foreign interference in elections” and “obvious corruption in city government” as displayed in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver (and Calgary, Winnipeg, Redmonton etc.) then calling your fellow citizens parasites is no longer reasonable.
Bottom line, no, most people did not vote for this. If the NDPee wins Alberta running of a platform of Moar Free Stuff, rainbows, glowball warming and mandatory jabs for all, I think it is safe to assume shenanigans.
What you are outlining here and in your posts above is how and why any system of justice and law enforcement breaks down. When police arrest the wrong party and when the justice system fails to incarcerate the perps, usually the citizenry takes things into their own hands.
The real effort of what’s going on in Toronto right now, and a number of other major cities, is to try to persuade people that the police still have the perps in hand. But it’s the justice system which is failing even worse with its assorted ‘catch and release’ programs. Because of the complete lack of any restraint on criminals, major cities have become entirely uninhabitable. The question now is how far away is Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver from Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Chicago.
Phantom
….and if the Commies don’t win, expect an unforseen new rash of wildfires. I think we can take THAT to the bank.
And,Im with Menticide, Great post.
Great posts Phantom!
Your increasingly rare common sense shining through.
We ALL live in Rooster Town now:
https://49thshelf.com/Blog/2018/10/18/Rooster-Town-The-History-of-an-Urban-Metis-Community
“In 1901, sixteen Métis households moved into southwest Winnipeg joining six Métis families who had moved there a few years before. They squatted on unserviced lots which had reverted to the City of Winnipeg for unpaid taxes. While the settlement contracted slightly during the Great Depression, Rooster Town grew every year until in 1946 the community reached its maximum size of 59 households, with an estimated population of more the 250 people. Poverty and unstable employment meant that squatting or buying inexpensive land on the city fringe, and self-building, was a resilient strategy for accessing urban employment and services and providing housing for families.”
Remember the Charles Bronson movies?
People forgot why these were so popular. NYC was a shit hole in the 70’s. Effective policing and law enforcement changed it for the better.
Charles Bronson was one of favourite “tough guy” actors when I was growing up. Still enjoy watching his movie clips on YouTube.