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Welcome to Zimbabwe forebrainless governance. Soros smiles. Hegelian dialectic is going to have another field day with the ooga booga warlords dancing in Times Square. Will the agents of captagon chaos shoot the door guards and climb the stairs to chase the wealthy into their locked panic rooms? The Visigoths couldn't have done it better.

Are there any decently run large citities with black mayors?

NYC, SF, Chicago, LA, Baltimore, Seattle are all shitty, figuratively and literally, some moreso than others.

Return to the bush? Squalid, primitive, murderous kleptocracies, like joyous Africa? Crush the nation with the Hun? How Joseph Conrad of them.

Patrick says

New York City Installs Vending Machines That Dispense Crack Pipes

New York sucks today, except if you are looking for easy chicks.

It's similar to San Francisco in this respect.

"New York's alright until they push you in front of a subway." Fear

@zzyzzx You beat me to that one!

Ripped off from another thread:
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-city-receives-federal-approval-charge-drivers-attempt-reduce-congestion

New York receives federal approval to charge Manhattan drivers in an attempt to reduce congestion

Under one of several tolling scenarios under consideration, drivers could be charged as much as $23 a day to enter Manhattan south of 60th Street, with the exact amount still to be decided by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which is overseeing the long-stalled plan.

People headed into Manhattan already pay big tolls to use many of the bridges and tunnels connecting across the Hudson, East and Harlem Rivers. The special tolls for the southern half of Manhattan would come on top of those existing charges.

https://nypost.com/2023/08/05/video-shows-street-walkers-in-the-open-in-brooklyn/?dicbo=v2-X47yu1W

Patrick says

A little voice whispers in my head that this is Black Anti-Asianism.

"Little ching-chongs always giving packets of soy sauce and mustard and spoons and forks... people ought be buying fried chicken and bean pies"

AmericanKulak says

bean pies

I never knew about bean pies, and I have sampled all the Appalachian po' people food from collards to crawdads to chitlins. Are bean pies Cajun?

HeadSet says

AmericanKulak says

bean pies

I never knew about bean pies, and I have sampled all the Appalachian po' people food from collards to crawdads to chitlins. Are bean pies Cajun?

Go do a search on any of these sites:

Bing
Brave
Dogpile
DuckDuckGo
FreeSpoke
Google
MetaPedia (wikipedia alternative)
Mojeek
Qwant
Result Hunter
Searx (multiple independent search engines)
Start Page
Swiss Cows
Wiby
Yandex
You.com

I've never heard of it either, and I doubt I'd like it. There's tons of recipes. If you attempt to make one, ping me. I'd be mildly curious as to how it turned out.

https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/08/27/big-apple-rat-problem-so-bad-now-theyre-a-tourist-attraction-n2163102

New York City Rat Problem so Bad Now They're a Tourist Attraction

The New York Times ran the first of three eye-popping stories yesterday headlined, “U.S. Investigating Whether Adams Received Illegal Donations From Turkey.” The sub-headline ominously added, “A raid at the home of Eric Adams’s chief fund-raiser was part of an inquiry into whether foreign money was funneled into his mayoral campaign, a search warrant shows.”

To be clear, it wasn’t Adams’s house that was raided, it was his top fund-raiser. The Times reported that the FBI raid was related to a “broad public corruption investigation” into whether Adams’s 2021 campaign conspired with Turkey over illegal campaign donations.

Turkey! You probably wouldn’t assume the muslim nation was closely affiliated with New York City, but you’d be wrong. Apparently Mayor Adams loves to go there. According to the Daily News, at an event last week Adams bragged, “I think I’m on my sixth or seventh visit.” The Times said the Turkish government funded at least one of Eric’s trips, and maybe more.

The article explained that, right when Adams was jetting toward Washington to complain to White House officials about the city’s crisis-level migrant meltdown and the lack of any federal dollars for same, he heard the FBI had raided his top fund-raiser’s house in Brooklyn. So Adams promptly canceled all his D.C. meetings, turned Mayoral plane around, and flew right back to the Rotten Apple to take care of business.

We don’t know, but a legal noose of some kind seems to be slowly tightening around the Mayor’s sweaty neck. The Times reported that New York’s District Attorney Alvin Bragg — the same one prosecuting Trump — recently indicted Mayor Adams’s former senior adviser Eric Ulrich, charging him with 16 felony counts including conspiracy and bribe taking. Ulrich was also involved with Adams’s 2021 fundraising. In July, DA Bragg indicted six other folks for organizing illegal donations to Adams’s 2021 campaign.

Worse for Adams, whatever DA Bragg is up to is completely separate from yesterday’s FBI raid, which is a federal matter. So far, the setup has the classic appearance of a RICO investigation, where prosecutors roll up the conspiracy from the bottom, offering deals to lower-level participants to testify against the crooks at the top of the pyramid.

Adams is one of three top democrats in the crosshairs of criminal investigations this week. All of the investigations are democrat-run.

Why are Democrats enforcing the law against other Democrats? Don't don't they know the rules? Prosecution is just for Trump supporters, and of course for Trump whether he committed any crimes or not.

Patrick says

Why are Democrats enforcing the law against other Democrats?

Adams is being "Al Frankened." That is, the Dems prosecute an out of favor Dem guy to justify an unwarranted attack on a Repub. Adams should not have complained about illegals in his city.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/the-heisenberg-effect-friday-november

Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams raised the stakes yesterday, informing Big Apple residents that because of the illegal migrant crisis, and because of competing laws requiring both expensive housing for migrants and also requiring the city to balance its budget, the city will soon be deleting many “services” that aren’t legally mandated.

Specifically, Mayor Adams announced a ten-percent across-the-board cut to all discretionary services, which he warned citizens would be “extremely painful.” Adams explained, “Migrant costs are going up, tax revenue growth is slowing, and COVID stimulus funding is drying up … If circumstances don’t change dramatically, city agencies will be forced to reduce city-funded spending by 5% two more times in the next six months.”

And all of this belt-tightening is occurring whilst the DOJ tails Mayor Adams everywhere in panel vans and eavesdrops on all his communications, because he got a free plane ticket or something. This week the FBI seized Adam’s phones and iPad in a dramatic showdown. But the Mayor does not seem cowed; instead he remains feisty. Firing right back, in an online press release attached to his video statement, the Mayor’s office blamed the looming services cuts on Joe Biden:

“We must balance our budget in wake of the $12 billion that we project to spend as a result of the migrant crisis. Our budget has been balanced with heavy hearts. Our administration is outraged to have to implement these cuts, which are a direct result of the lack of financial support from Washington, D.C., which is derelict in its responsibility to institute a national plan to mitigate a national crisis and has instead elected to dump its job to handle this migrant crisis upon the lap of a municipality and its mayor. A national crisis demands a national solution,” said Chief Advisor Ingrid P. Lewis-Martin.

A New York Times article about the looming cuts was even more blunt about their effect. The headline read, “Eric Adams Slashes Budgets for Police, Libraries and Schools.” Hinting at the developing blue-on-blue controversy, the sub-headline explained, “Mr. Adams said the migrant crisis made the deep budget cuts necessary. Progressive Democrats called the reductions dangerous and unnecessary.” The Times darkly warned readers the cuts will shred $1 billion from the education budget, close City libraries on Sundays, and require a hiring freeze that would reduce the number of police officers to 1980 staffing levels.

Meanwhile, the numbers of “citizens” who require services keeps increasing. Chronically-dropping school registrations increased for the first time since well before the pandemic, based almost entirely on illegal migrant children now required to be schooled by the sanctuary city.

None of the dire predictions matter. At some point, perhaps in a special referendum, New York voters must undo their sanctuary city laws. Realistically, Biden can’t bail out New York. The instant the feds send money to the City that Never Sleeps, hundreds of Texas towns would immediately sue the federal government for Equal Protection — in Texas. And Texas towns might not use the money in the same generous ways Mayor Adams would.

New Yorkers, who voted for the sanctuary laws requiring the city to buy foreign citizens swanky hotel stays, are just like the Portlanders wrestling with their goofy drug laws. New Yorkers — even the ones who don’t pay the taxes — are finally starting to feel the pain of their virtue-signaling choices. It will be a hard, expensive lesson. But the good news is, it’s only going to hurt for a long, long time.

C'mon man, he's being investigated by the Feds. He should go nuclear and have his police start investigating who is responsible for deaths from the Vaxx. Conspiracy to commit murder etc. That would chill them out, but get Adams assassinated probably...still be funny.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/toads-wild-ride-thursday-march-7

Media yesterday was full of stories about Kathy Hochul’s announcement about militarizing New York’s Subways. The New York Times ran the story, headlined “National Guard and State Police Will Patrol the Subways and Check Bags.” It’s a stunning deployment of 1,000 militarized personnel, 750 National Guardsmen and 250 specially-trained police.

Replacement Governor Kathy Hochul explained the near-instantaneous deployment was to ensure average New Yorkers don’t smuggle any deadly weapons around in their purses and handbags, which makes subway riding less safe. (Like something with which to defend themselves.) So Kathy had a brainstorm: let’s start checking everybody’s bags who rides the subway.

With the military.

“Making subways safer” was the dumbest explanation ever. They went straight from “stopping and frisking is racist” to “let’s make every grandma dump out her purse.” If the 4th Amendment prohibits stopping and frisking, I’m pretty sure the 4th Amendment applies here, too.

It’s weird. Why is the military involved? It kind of looks like they got a credible terrorist threat or something, but they’re lying about it and, to satisfy woke demands, they are pretending they have to check everyone instead of using common sense.

I grew up in one of the boroughs, Staten Island. I was there until Junior year of high school, and departed in the early 1970's.

Of all of the kids I grew up with, and their brothers, and my brother and sister, I only know a couple of people who still live there; my brother is one.

As NYC goes, Staten Island is mellow and pretty distinct from the other boroughs. There are some actually nice areas.

I tell my brother he's nuts to stay there. He's working in his 70's and his wife would never agree to leave her relatives in Brooklyn.

Interestingly, Staten Island people vigorously resisted illegals being allowed into a closed school. I believe they got a court order to stop the City from it.

Good for them.

https://babylonbee.com/cleanArticle/nyc-mayor-assures-migrants-that-if-they-run-out-of-prepaid-debit-cards-they-can-just-rob-americans-directly

What’s Happening in NYC? Women Randomly Punched in the Face While Walking Down the Street (Updated variation of that innocent fun thing called the Knockout Game?)



Recently, WOMEN in NYC have been sharing videos on social media in the aftermath of being randomly punched in the face while strolling down the city streets.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/03/what-is-happening-nyc-women-randomly-punched-face/

The fact that the media doesn't mention anything about the description of these psychopaths must mean something, but I can't imagine what.

Paul Joseph Watson on NYC recent Punch in the Face Attacks: WHAT DID HE LOOK LIKE?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRx-j-sCvHo&t=79s

clambo says

I only know a couple of people who still live there

the rest moved to Port St Lucie, Florida :-/

.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/jock-itch-saturday-march-31-2024

Buckle up, New Yorkers! The mental midgets manipulating the City’s managed meltdown are now planning to turn the convenience of the subway into an invasive and mindless security ritual resembling the Orwellian world of airport ‘security.’ The New York Times ran its ridiculous, narrative-warping story yesterday. It was as impressive a bit of journalistic malpractice as ever saw digital print, headlined “The Challenge of Making New York’s 472 Subway Stations Safer.”

From the first line, the story’s narrative goal was obvious: to disguise the militarization of New York’s subways inside a springtime wrapper of ‘safety’ — a safety that the reporter then described as basically being an irrational, paranoid artifact of New Yorkers’ social media addictions.

Actually, it started even before the first line. The story’s headline picture, floating above the initial paragraph, bore a cleverly deceptive caption: “The effort to protect the subways took on urgency yet again this week after police said a man died when stranger shoved him off a platform.”

See the journalistic sleight of hand? “Police said” somebody got shoved off the platform. Why not report it straight, that some lunatic shoved a guy off the platform in front of a train? Why blur what happened behind “police said?” Wouldn’t the sentence have been more powerful without the confusing “police said” in the middle?

Was the reporter unable to verify whether it happened or not?

Nope. The reporter used those words in that way to sow subconscious doubt over whether it happened, which obscured and softened the impact of what was otherwise pretty terrifying news.

That kind of obfuscation seems to be a Times policy for these attacks. Here’s how the Times reported the original attack in a separate story:




Haha! That headline and subheadline feature at least four different ways they used passive voice and euphemisms to confuse readers about what happened. Maybe the worst one was the Times minimizing a dangerous lunatic violently shoving innocent people right in front of oncoming subways trains, by primly labeling the murderous episodes as merely a “persistent challenge.”

A “persistent challenge” is a not a series of violent, murderous attacks. A “persistent challenge” is a difficult case of athletic itch, or a husband’s perfectly understandable failures to pick up his own gym clothes off the bathroom floor, or possibly trigonometry. Your author feels confident that the phrase “persistent challenge” is perhaps, well, somewhat insufficient as a rhetorical device for describing a string of terrifying subway killings.

Maybe a better story would have been about figuring out why the subway-killer “challenge” is so bloody “persistent.” Maybe if we could answer that question, we could more easily solve the actual problem .

But never mind about all that. Let’s get back to the safety story. Note the reporter’s carefully chosen words and phrases describing the persistent problem (lightly edited for clarity):

"Public officials have sought to tamp fears about a string of frightening crimes in the transit network by flooding it with wave after wave of police officers, mental health workers and cameras. But after every deployment, another violent event has followed. The string of recent subway attacks have been impossible to predict. Some occurred on moving trains and others on platforms far from the center of Manhattan. Some have happened in the still of night and others during busy rush hours."

Notice once again how woefully shrunken was this otherwise alarming story. The very first sentence quoted above explained, “officials have sought to tamp fears about a string of frightening crimes.” Get it? Officials have a goal of tamping your fears. Not arresting criminals. Not stopping crime. Not making the subway safe again.

Nope. Their goal is just to tamp down your unreasonable fears. Which coincidentally, is the same as the story’s goal. (And, how about the twisted, passive-voiced euphemism, a “violent event?” An event? Is that a New York Times code word for ‘killing spree’?)

That framing wasn’t just a one-off accident. Later, the article explained how the mental midgets running the Big Apple have come up with the idea of cracking down on non-violent fare jumpers using mechanical devices that will make it much harder to get through the subway and will slow everything down. But guess why they are doing it:

"Law enforcement experts have said that reining in petty offenses like fare evasion minimizes disorder in the subway, and, as a result, can act as a deterrent and make riders feel less likely to be victimized."

There! Now do you feel better, knowing that they are making the subways a lot more of a hassle that so you will feel less likely to be victimized? Are you feeling safer yet? Or, do you need even more oppressive security features added to your day?

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

In other words, you’ll still face the same chance of getting randomly shoved in front of a moving train, but maybe when it happens, you’ll feel — okay, maybe not better — but you’ll feel less likely to have been victimized. It was just bad luck.

Explain how expensive, high-tech body scanners will stop drug-fevered madmen from shoving people off the platforms...

In other words, they can’t keep you safe. They just can’t. Sorry. It used to be possible, but for reasons we are forbidden from discussing, it is just no longer possible. ...

In other words, New York has stroked checks for well over a hundred million dollars — up to a million dollars per offender — all so as to avoid arresting a few dozen criminally insane minorities. But that’s not all. They’re also surging waves and waves of law enforcement in the problem’s general direction...

Behold with quiet amazement: it’s democrat governance at work! All those soldiers and police and mental health teams aren’t there to arrest criminals. After all, that would be mean. The soldiers and police and mental health teams are there to tamp down on your fears. To make you feel safer, even though everyone knows you aren’t actually safer.

You aren’t actually safer since the criminals are still there. Plus, the criminals know that if they are arrested they’ll be released anyway. They simply aren’t deterred by all the soldiers and police and mental health teams. They are riding in the justice system’s first class section.

Well, the soldiers and police are there to make some arrests. Just not the criminals. They’ll immediately arrest you, if you step out of line. Don’t try anything stupid, like defending yourself or anybody else. Just ask courageous veteran Daniel Penny what happens when you take the law’s inaction into your own hands:




Why are the public officials putting soldiers and police where it’s mostly citizens, instead of in another spot I could think of, a spot where you might cut the “persistent challenge” off at the source?

I'd like to search that account's posts for anything resembling support of the "big lie." I've adored watching low IQ folks believe that Trump's election was stolen but the denizens of cities just really love voting for their homes to be shit.

DhammaStep says

I've adored watching low IQ folks believe that Trump's election was stolen

How many people voted in 2016 versus 2020? What percentage of this is of the population? Did Trump get more or less votes in 2020 than he did in 2016? Do you think people who voted for Trump in 2016 voted for Biden in 2020? What was the increase in registered voters from 2016 to 2020?

You dismiss things without even doing the SLIGHTEST bit of thinking.

Would be a better graph if y-axis started from zero, but still.