Friday, March 29, 2024

NYC: Progressives never see the damage they cause by pro criminal actions. AOC helped create this miasma


There has been a recent series of unprovoked, broad-daylight attacks on women in New York City. The savage assaults have prompted outrage, even among some Democrats.

One Democratic New York City councilwoman in particular asked why men were not altogether stepping up to address the issue. Critics swiftly provided Councilwoman Amanda Farías with one possible reason why: She and other leftists have cried foul when men have previously stepped into the breach.

The attacks

Blaze News previously reported that various women peacefully navigating Manhattan sidewalks have been viciously attacked in recent weeks. Halley Kate Mcgookin, a social media influencer, was apparently one of them.

Choked up and tear-soused, Mcgookin recently noted in a viral video, "I was literally just walking and a man came up and punched me in the face."

"Oh my God, it hurts so bad. I can't even talk," added Mcgookin.

Sarah Harvard, another recent victim, was on her way to a comedy gig on the Lower East Side on March 19 when she was attacked from behind.

"I was walking, and out of nowhere, BAM!" she wrote on X. "I almost fell over. The back of my skull throbbing in pain, brain feels rattled."

At least one arrest has been made — 40-year-old Skiboky Stora of Brooklyn — but there appear to be multiple attackers.

Where have all the good men gone?

Amid mounting outrage over the attacks, the New York City Council's predominantly leftist Women's Caucus stated it was "deeply disturbed and concerned about widespread reports of attacks against women in New York City that have been confirmed by the NYPD."

"The Women's Caucus calls on the NYPD for an immediate and comprehensive investigation into these incidents with transparent updates to the public," continued the statement. "We are encouraging New Yorkers with similar experience to notify the NYPD to conduct a thorough investigation. Amid an alarming trend in violence against women, this kind of violence is reprehensible."

New York City Council Majority Leader Amanda Farías shared the statement, adding, "Where are the men calling this out?"

Handcuffed heroes

In May 2023, Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man with a history of criminal arrests, was said by witnesses to have threatened various passengers on a New York City subway train.

One witness told Fox News Digital, "I'm sitting on a train reading my book, and, all of a sudden, I hear someone spewing this rhetoric. He said, 'I don't care if I have to kill an F, I will. I'll go to jail, I'll take a bullet."

Passengers crewed on one side of the train to avoid Neely, especially after his alleged use of the words "bullet" and "kill."

"Why in the world would you take a bullet? Why? You don't take a bullet because you've snatched something from somebody's hand. You take a bullet for violence," said the female witness.

With women and men alike ostensibly in danger, former Marine Daniel Penny, then 24, did not simply call out the danger. He did something about it.

"The three main threats he repeated over and over was 'I'm going to kill you,' 'I'm prepared to go to jail for life,' and 'I'm willing to die,'" Penny later recalled.

The former Marine put Neely in a chokehold. Neely subsequently died. 

The female witness said, "It was self-defense, and I believe in my heart that he saved a lot of people that day that could have gotten hurt."

Leftists such as Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) rushed to condemnPenny and paint Neely as a victim.

Amanda Farías was among the loudest critics of Penny's attempt to restore order and protect women.

Farías tweeted on May 11, 2023, "I continue to be heartbroken and outraged by the death of Jordan Neely and the lack of justice. The @BLACaucusNYC stands together to demand justice for Jordan and to pay attention to the systems that failed him so we do not lose any more Black New Yorkers to senseless violence."

Penny was ultimately indicted by a Manhattan grand jury of second-degree manslaughter. His trial is scheduled for October.

Backlash 

Critics seized upon Farías' Thursday comment, noting her past contempt for the kind of New Yorker who might intervene if he saw a woman attacked randomly.

Christina Pushaw, an aide to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), was one of many who responded to Farías' question with a picture of Penny.

One X user wrote, "'Where are the men calling this out?' On trial right now, that's where."

Second Amendment activist Dana Loesch wrote, "Ya'll jail them."

Michael Seifert, the founder and CCEO of the conservative Amazon alternative PublicSq.wrote, "They're all getting arrested like Daniel Penny."

Heritage research fellow Jason Bedrick responded, "NYC policies are doing this. Here's an idea: stop punishing the men who step up and help and stop releasing dangerous perpetrators awaiting trial."

The New York Post editorial board noted that while Farías is now desperate for police to do something about the trend of random attacks on women, she was previously desperate to kneecap the police.

The Post highlighted how Farías, when still a council candidate, underscored the need "to significantly divest from police precincts" and pledged to support "the reduction of NYPD's operating budget and partnering alongside the community to create real solutions and justice for New Yorkers."

Since taking office, she has made good on her anti-police promises, sponsoring the "How Many Stops Act," legislation that serves to stymie policing efforts. She also helped to override Mayor Eric Adams' subsequent veto attempt.

Republican NYC Councilwoman Vickie Paladino noted that a real fix to the problem Farías now seems to care about may require addressing the laws that allow criminals to prowl the streets freely.

"'Calling out' a problem isn't really going to do much unless it's followed up with solutions, and progressives are completely opposed to the solutions which actually work," wrote Paladino.


Thursday, March 28, 2024

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The red pill of Obamacare

The red pill of Obamacare

Joe Biden is flailing in the polls, trailing President Trump in all the swing states, and likely to lose in November.

Inflation, illegals, crime and wokesterism are among the best-known reasons for the shift.

But how many are aware that the nightmare of Obamacare is still with us, too, and likely driving Biden's poll numbers down?

As the man in this video below notes, the soaring cost and inflexibility of the mandate has made him say 'goodbye' to voting Democrat:



 

According to RealClearPolitics, which has the beginning transcript of the video, the man lays out his personal situation and how bad it is because of Obamacare:

VOTER: I thought I would share why I am no longer a Democrat... I was a two-time bone cancer survivor, still am. That's how I lost my arm. Having healthcare was extremely important to me. I heard all the talking points of "if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor," "if you like your plan, you can keep your plan, "the average family is going to save $1,500 a year," "it's not a tax." All of this stuff makes sense to me, how this was being pushed. And then the Democrats were saying Republicans don't want you to have health insurance if you have pre-existing conditions. Well I was a walking pre-existing condition having cancer twice.

My insurance was $185/month with a $1,000 deductible. That was for a family of 5. So I voted for Obama-Biden in 2008 based on Obamacare. Now fast forward to 2010 when Obamacare was implemented. Everything that they said was not true. The Supreme Court ruled that it was a tax if you didn't have insurance, that penalty. So that was a lie. Insurance premiums went up instead of down. That was a lie. The insurance policy that I had specifically that I had going through 2 bouts of cancer -- chemotherapy, amputation, all of this stuff. It was great insurance. The insurance company canceled it because under the new Obamacare guidelines that policy wasn't good enough so they no longer offered it. They came up with a new offer and said this is what your new plan will be or you can go through the marketplace. And when I looked at it, the cheapest insurance I could find to replace that one was $1,200 a month with a $6,000 deductible.
Remember, $185/month with a $1,000 deductible is now $1,200/month with a $6,000 deductible. No additional income. So I had to make a choice. Do I keep a roof over my children's head or do I get health insurance and struggle? And I choose to just keep a roof over my children's head. And then I was penalized every year. I didn't have insurance for 10 years after that. I couldn't afford it.

For ten years I was penalized every single year because I could no longer afford the insurance that I was required to get through law through Obamacare. I voted for that shit. And it did nothing but hurt me and my family.

It's not just the inflation, which is nightmarish enough. It's the sense of being gaslit, lied to, and deceived, and there's no way out.

After that intro, he grows intense and passionate, attempting to persuade young people through reason to vote responsibly, based on their own personal situations in this coming election, as he is in his. He points out the lies and the constant unfairness of Obamacare -- penalizing the middle class voters who cannot afford Obamacare, whose costs keep rising in a death spiral that he believes has "destroyed" the middle class.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/03/the_red_pill_of_obamacare.html

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Sarah Arnold

NBC News Officially Bans Republicans From Working There

NBC News Officially Bans Republicans From Working There

"No organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned."


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For the longest time, the media played this game of pretending that it doesn’t consist entirely of a bunch of leftist activists who exist to promote their political agenda and attack those of their political opponents.

The pretense is wearing thin. And who knew that Ronna McDaniel of all people would be the breaking point? But it’s kind of like the way that the media’s attacks on dishwater liberals like McCain and Romney, portraying them as Hitler 2.0 just because they posed a threat to Obama, helped kill the media’s credibility.

The attacks on McCain and Romney made it clear that it wasn’t about “conservatives” or “right-wingers”, the media was out to destroy anyone running as a Republican and would tell the same lies about them.

Now NBC News has officially banned Republicans, even ones like Ronna McDaniel, from working there.

Ceasar Conde, the Chair of NBCUniversal News, issued a statement purging Ronna McDaniel while declaring that, “no organization, particularly a newsroom, can succeed unless it is cohesive and aligned.”

Conde claimed that McDaniel was hired in order to present “audiences with a widely diverse set of viewpoints”, but that gets in the way of a “cohesive and aligned” newsroom where everyone shares the same politics.

In his conclusion, Conde claims that NBC News still wants to “seek voices that represent different parts of the political spectrum.”

Just not the former fairly liberal chair of the RNC. Or anything resembling a Republican.

And that’s fine. NBC News is a Democrat organization that exists to push leftist talking points. Republicans and conservatives should publicly identify it as such over and over again.

In the past journalism was about a diverse set of views, without using the Newspeak terms, because it wasn’t “cohesive and aligned.” Now it is a leftist echo chamber. Members of that echo chamber should not be allowed to interview people they disagree with, let alone moderate their debates.

If there’s no room for Republicans at NBC News, Republicans should not be giving interviews to NBC News.

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