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RC2006 says

Need to change Chicago to Shitcongo.

I’ve said it before. Being close enough to go anytime I want. I may never set foot in the city again.

It was bad when I lived there and worked there till 2017. I think 2019 was the last time for a Cubs game.

Honestly there’s nothing to do. It’s the 5 sports teams, Navy Pier, Mag mile, river tour and a shitload of bars. So the draw is drinking, shopping and sports. The food is the only thing I’ll miss but as I get older I’m finding my taste buds are changing and a steak is a steak at this point unless it’s absolutely crap meat. And I can get pretty close cooking on my own at home for 1/4 the cost with top quality locally sourced meat.

I’ll keep advising people not to go to Chicago or any major city for that matter. Without a mindset change by leaders it’s simply not worth it. I never was this way but it is becoming as dangerous as going to a 3rd world country. San Diego is my only visit for the foreseeable future. I’ll be outside the city most the time though besides the last night.

WookieMan says

I’ve said it before. Being close enough to go anytime I want. I may never set foot in the city again.

It was bad when I lived there and worked there till 2017. I think 2019 was the last time for a Cubs game.

Honestly there’s nothing to do. It’s the 5 sports teams, Navy Pier, Mag mile, river tour and a shitload of bars. So the draw is drinking, shopping and sports. The food is the only thing I’ll miss but as I get older I’m finding my taste buds are changing a (some text omitted to shorten quote...) tely crap meat. And I can get pretty close cooking on my own at home for 1/4 the cost with top quality locally sourced meat.

I’ll keep advising people not to go to Chicago or any major city for that matter. Without a mindset change by leaders it’s simply not worth it. I never was this way but it is becoming as dangerous as going to a 3rd world country. San Diego is my only visit for the foreseeable future. I’ll be outside the city most the time though besides the last night.

San Diego and Salt Lake City are the nicest big cities I’ve ever visited. San Diego used to have bad areas on the fringes of downtown, but they are the one California big city that actually improved their homeless situation from where it was 20 years ago. Everyone else got worse. Austin was nice when I visited 25+ years ago, but even it had its really rough areas(we stayed one night in a &$*%# motel with bullet holes in the walls). Now I hear it’s much worse.

San Diego’s ghetto is almost non existent and even the low income Hispanic neighborhoods are relatively ok. Downtown is genuinely nice.

https://notthebee.com/article/a-minneapolis-teen-was-ruled-incompetent-to-stand-trial-after-shooting-someone-in-the-head-then-a-few-days-later-he-shot-another-person-in-the-head

A Minneapolis teen was ruled incompetent to stand trial after shooting someone in the head. A few months later, he shot another person in the head.

Patrick says

Sad and funny. Aren't brass knuckles illegal in most states? Even a crap jab to the face will leave you bleeding out. It's like having a bat on your hand.

A kid I knew in college got punched with some and ended up in the hospital. You WILL have stitches if you get whacked in the face when someone is using those.

https://notthebee.com/article/at-least-29-chiraq-residents-shot-at-juneteenth-event-celebrating-the-emancipation-of-black-american-slaves

Just watched Robocop 1 and 2 with kids this week. Crazy the whe world of Robocop 1980s seems safer and had no racism.

Shoplifter uses blowtorch to melt the door on of locked merchandise boxes in a Walgreens:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1671893690888122377

@libsoftiktok
Welcome to New York

Looters should always be shot on sight, as is traditional.

I met a state of ohio employee yesterday. She was a stranger. I told her that I moved to Columbus from Toledo (Ohio) and she goes why did you move here, this place is horrible! I didn't expect that.

Patrick says

Shoplifter uses blowtorch to melt the door on of locked merchandise boxes in a Walgreens

Oh no, not Walgreens! How could a company that literally has 18 year olds administer poison jabs and forced all customers to wear masks suddenly be facing retribution from the people?! What's next?! Big box stores that were allowed to stay open when everyone else was forced to close get looted too?!

https://twitter.com/ClownWorld/status/1673119173831200769

Portland

https://nypost.com/2023/07/06/king-soopers-employee-santino-burrola-fired-after-recording-shoplifters/

A Colorado supermarket employee was fired after he recorded three men stealing approximately $500 worth of laundry detergent from the store on Father’s Day.

Santino Burrola, the King Soopers employee, was alerted to a theft in progress at the store and the first thing he thought to do was pull out his phone and record it.

“When I looked there was already a guy halfway headed out with a food cart full of laundry detergents and scent boosters and what have you,” Burrola told CBS Colorado. “My first instinct, record.”

As Burrola, a former military police officer, walked out of the store, the three thieves hurried to load up a black Chevy Trax, one opening the doors, another throwing a basket full of items into the back seat, and another struggling to unload the full shopping cart.

“Really, bro, you got to resort to this? The economy isn’t that bad,” Burrola could be heard in the now-viral video shared by the Arapahoe Sheriff’s Office.

“Better gettin’ while the gettin’s good,” Burrola joked to the men.

As the three stooges attempted to flee the parking lot, the getaway driver was a little faster than the two still outside the car, who had trouble getting into the vehicle.

That allowed Burrola to yank a sheet of foil covering the license plate.

After the men got into the car and left the area, Burrola called the police, later sharing the video to social media, which helped out the investigators.

“So I posted it on TikTok, hoping that somebody would recognize them,” said Burrola about the video that was seen 1.5 million times, including by rapper Snoop Dogg.

When Burrola returned to the store for his next shift, he learned he had been suspended, and a week later was fired.

“Me and the union rep sat down with them and they recommended termination,” Burrola said. “I would never let any criminal conduct slide, especially when it’s happening right in front of me.”

Burrola said he didn’t break any rules or touch the thieves — all he was doing was trying to help the community.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-how-bad-it-gets-50-cent-says-los-angeles-is-finished

‘Watch How Bad It Gets’: 50 Cent Says Los Angeles Is ‘Finished’
By Joseph Curl
Jul 10, 2023

If you think Los Angeles is bad now, just wait.

Sure, drug addicts are shooting up on the streets, aggressive homeless people are everywhere, and violent crime is soaring. But rapper 50 Cent says the worst is yet to come.

50 Cent (real name Curtis Jackson) took to Instagram to post a video clip of a news report about a federal judge’s decision that holding inmates until they can pay cash bail is a violation of their constitutional rights.

“Starting at midnight tonight, the sheriff’s department will no longer detain people for crimes such as theft, shoplifting, drug use, vandalism, battery, and a whole host of other non-serious, non-violent crimes that affect the quality of life of people here in Los Angeles County,” Deputy District Attorney John McKinney says in the clip.

The news anchor then says: “LA Deputy DA John McKinney explains that due to Judge Lawrence Riff’s ruling, many people arrested will be released immediately without having to pay bail before their arraignment.”

Good point. Amazon has a large financial interest in retail crime continuing to escalate so that people will shop online.

Patrick says

Shoplifter uses blowtorch to melt the door on of locked merchandise boxes in a Walgreens:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1671893690888122377

libsoftiktok
Welcome to New York

Looters should always be shot on sight, as is traditional.

Including white collar looters.

https://notthebee.com/article/heres-a-selection-of-the-best-memes-mocking-oakland-california-for-advising-residents-to-use-an-air-horn-to-defend-themselves-from-criminals

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/special-people-saturday-august-12

Yesterday ABC 7 Washington ran an unfortunately all too common story headlined, “Shoplifting threatens closure of SE DC grocery store, creating potential food desert.”

Shoplifting threatens to close the store. Remember that line.

I could’ve used any of the many stories from San Francisco, where retailers are fleeing faster than Joe Biden sprinting out of a French Laundry dinner with some Ukrainian oligarchs when a reporter shows up. Walgreens, for one example, has closed half a dozen stores in San Fran, leaving only one highly-abused retail location.

But this DC story gave me everything I needed to expose the media’s latest shell game.

ABC reported on the Giant Food grocery store on Alabama Avenue, which is experiencing 20% inventory shrinkage due to shoplifting, and says it has lost over $500,000 in product this year. If that weren’t enough, Giant Food was recently forced to hire its own security, for some reason, at an annual cost of $300,000. So its DC location is costing over a million dollars more than other locations every year.

It’s pretty hard to raise prices enough to overcome those kinds of additional costs.

Local officials expressed fake concern. ...

ABC, which ultimately was too cowardly to actually name the real problem, still gets partial credit for including some pretty strong hints in its story. For example, the affiliate reported that it asked the District Attorney about shoplifting prosecutions:

7News also asked Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Steve Descano what is he doing to hold shoplifters accountable for stealing merchandise and what is he doing to address this crime trend. More than a month later, Descano still hasn’t answered 7News’ questions.

The District Attorney’s non-answer was the answer: Descano is doing nothing about shoplifting prosecution, that’s what. In other words, he’s not prosecuting them, at all. ...

But shoplifting isn’t the root problem. Shoplifting is only a symptom of the problem.

The obvious root problem, hinted at but not named by ABC’s DC affiliate, is that the cops aren’t arresting shoplifters. And why should they, when one man, woke District Attorney Descano, won’t prosecute the ne’er-do-wells. Here’s what the headline should have said:

Non-Enforcement of Shoplifting threatens closure of SE DC grocery store, creating potential food desert...

This odious trend began with the “defund police” movement. According to woke theory, black folks are disproportionately arrested for so-called “property crimes,” like shoplifting, and that isn’t fair. So a raft of woke criminal justice reforms were trotted out, like reducing police budgets and eliminating bail. That destructive experiment has now devolved into phase two, where in leftist-controlled areas they simply don’t arrest the criminals anymore. Easy peasy.

For social justice.

But, “food deserts” hurt the whole inner-city neighborhood, which is mostly black folks. So the woke criminal justice policies are now hurting the people they was supposed to help, just like they always do. And that harm to inner city residents is becoming so undeniable, the media has to shift back to blaming the criminals instead of the the woke officials preventing prosecution of these types of crimes.

This might move them closer towards the real problem, but don’t get your hopes up. Recognizing “shoplifters” doesn’t mean they have any plans to fix the system they broke. There won’t be more arrests. The retailers are on their own, forced to hire private security. And you’d better believe the District Attorney will vigorously prosecute Giant Food if a shoplifter ever gets hurt when security tries to stop them.

If we had a free media in this country, they’d be running stories about the real reasons that marxist DA’s are allowing crime to run rampant in Blue cities. Who benefits? The answer is: billionaires benefit, because they can buy up expensive downtown real estate on the cheap as property values plummet, and big delivery-based corporations like Amazon benefit, because they fill in the gaps when smaller businesses are forced to close up shop.

In other words, it’s the literal, textbook definition of fascism.

GNL says

Patrick says

Shoplifter uses blowtorch to melt the door on of locked merchandise boxes in a Walgreens:

https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1671893690888122377

libsoftiktok
Welcome to New York

Looters should always be shot on sight, as is traditional.

Including white collar looters.

I think they should be shot first.

I like the story of the female doctor in Portland who said I voted for the liberals and the government and to defund, and what happened, we did this to ourselves.

I guess it took that brick to her head one night while walking home wake her up. I know it was a can that severely hurt her but a brick just resonates better.

https://notthebee.com/article/you-love-to-see-it-the-residents-of-scottsdale-chased-down-a-shoplifter-and-taught-him-a-lesson-in-instant-justice

All these big cities are running out of control because their leaders say stopping crime is racist or something, and that businesses can afford to lose stuff because that shoplifter really needed some new kicks.

California is so dedicated to that stupidity that they are trying to pass SB 553, a law that supposedly bans employers from requiring employees to stop shoplifters, but in actuality could be interpreted to fine a business $18,000 every time they try to stop a criminal!

https://notthebee.com/article/overwhelmed-austin-police-tell-citizens-to-stop-calling-911-if-theyre-getting-robbed

Overwhelmed Austin police tell citizens to stop calling 911 if they're getting robbed

First off, as a Texan I feel it necessary to say that there's Texas and then there's Austin. If they weren't the seat of our government, we'd expel the city from the state.

Secondly, the Democrats have run Austin for years, and now the city is paying for it. ...

Patrick says

First off, as a Texan I feel it necessary to say that there's Texas and then there's Austin. If they weren't the seat of our government, we'd expel the city from the state.

Secondly, the Democrats have run Austin for years, and now the city is paying for it. ...

Having lived in TX for 20 years, this is the truth - Austin is the Un-Texas. Another factoid, the city manager for 20 years was from . . . you guessed it, San Francisco! Austin has been completely californicated for over a decade now.

https://twitter.com/lalovestrump/status/1695995031675678803

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/welcome-to-the-jungle-monday-september

Game over, Portlanders! Late last week, the Oregonian ran a story headlined, “Nike to permanently close NE Portland factory store, business district says.” Nike is shutting down its 40-year-old flagship store and scampering out of downtown Portland on its fastest sneakers.

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Nike cited crime and safety concerns. The Oregonian described the now-closed Nike Community Store as “a staple in its Portland neighborhood, once the core of the city’s black population, since it opened in June 1984.” The woke store not only hired local workers from the neighborhood, but it also invested all the store’s profits into Portland’s black community.

In other words, Nike wasn’t even running the store to make money. It was just a virtue-signaling operation. And it still couldn’t make it.

The article mentioned that increasingly-desperate Nike recently offered to partially fund Portland’s police department in exchange for getting an off-duty police officer to help watch the store. But Portland is in the business of defunding police departments, not funding them. Portland rejected Nike’s offer like it was a box of unwanted last-season sneaker models.

According to an Oregon Live analysis of IRS data, Multnomah County, where Portland is located, last year hemorrhaged 14,257 taxpayers, creating a historic loss of $1 billion in tax revenues. Fox 12 News ranked Portland as one of America’s “fastest shrinking cities.”

For the life of me, I can’t understand why.




https://twitter.com/PDXFato/status/1699073561678454996

Portland’s controlled demolition is going great! The good news is, it will be over soon.

So, NYC is at the beginning of an unprecedented crime wave. Murders, rapes, robberies, you name it. All categories of crime are skyrocketing.

The mayor's solution...drop the amount of police overtime. Who cares the city is already down thousands of officers? Those funds are going to go to the illegals.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-purge-starts-outrage-erupts-after-eric-adams-cuts-nypd-overtime-to-pay-for-migrants/ar-AA1gz7vL?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=fdcce79540644d378a12fb29c42cfb0b&ei=6

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/chicken-legs-monday-september-18

So … Chicago thinks it’s easier and cheaper to build government-run grocery stores instead of prosecuting shoplifting. Who wants to bet they’ll stop the shoplifting down hard in the government store?

If this thing gets off the ground, it would be the first government-owned grocery store in any major U.S. city. One suspects this fascist concept is the leading edge of the gruesome “15-minute city” plan, or “smart city” plan, or whatever they’re calling it now.

There’s a word for government-owning businesses like grocery stores, it’s called … um … I couldn’t remember what it was called, not exactly. So I asked Bard A.I.:

https://notthebee.com/article/just-another-day-in-seattle-here-folks

Sick, dude. Just sick.

Like, you're rolling six deep into this place and you're going to put one of your guys on woman-beating duty? That's sad, bro. And how you gonna split all that cash and vape stuff between six of you? What, does everyone get $40 and a few cartridges? Cuz that seems hardly worth it.

But I guess in Seattle anything goes.

So dumb, and I hope next time the clerk has a gun.

stereotomy says

Having lived in TX for 20 years, this is the truth - Austin is the Un-Texas. Another factoid, the city manager for 20 years was from . . . you guessed it, San Francisco! Austin has been completely californicated for over a decade now.

I thought Austin was a shit hole the first time I went there. That was about 18 years ago. I can't imagine it now. Reminds me a lot of Nashville. Both are shit holes with a bunch of hipster types. It's 5-6 bar owners that own everything in the "entertainment" district and its's pure shit. Nothing enjoyable. I'd rather go to NOLA and I can't stand that place either.

Country music is pure trash, so that doesn't help either Nashville or Austin. SXSW is trash. I'd rather see most if not all the bands somewhere else. Not Texan or Tennessee. It's the McDonalds of music venues. They suck.