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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. ...
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 … 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.:
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.
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.
Target to close nine stores across four states because of theft and crime
The Minneapolis-based company will close locations in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, Seattle, Portland and the San Francisco Bay Area effective Oct. 21.
Country Music is trash because Memphis and Nashville are where pop star wannabes who failed in LA go to for a second chance at pop with a twangy voice or Tractor Rap.
These clips of MASS LOOTING in Philly overnight are WILD
Retail theft surged by more than 20% last year, reaching “unprecedented” levels, according to survey of business owners...
This will also explain in part why prices are going up. Retailers have to recoup their losses, whatever they may be — and many of their losses are simply walking out the front door on a daily basis.
And the parameters of the problem are getting worse, too: Retailers on the survey said that shoplifters are "somewhat more or much more aggressive and violent compared with one year ago." They're getting bolder and they're getting meaner too. It's unsurprising.
Unsurprisingly, Democrat-run cities have been hit the hardest by organized retail crime: Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Houston, and New York City all rank at the top. Criminals will go where the crime is easiest.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12592647/ryan-carson-murder-tribute.html
A George Soros-funded prosecutor has been carjacked at gunpoint in his own Democrat-controlled city of New Orleans.
According to the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD), the city’s Democrat District Attorney Jason Williams was robbed on Monday.
Williams was walking his 78-year-old mother to his car when two suspects approached the pair.
They pointed a gun at them and demanded the prosecutor’s car, according to WVUE.
The suspects then jumped into the car and drove off. ...
The DA was elected in 2020 after Soros donated $220,000 to sway the election in his favor, according to the Capital Research Center.
Soros pumped cash into the Louisiana Justice and Public Safety PAC to run campaigns against Williams’ opponent.
Williams campaigned on a platform of “woke” social justice reform, promising to find “alternatives to incarceration” for some criminals.
He also pledged to reform the “ineffective and unfair money bail system,” according to his campaign website.
Williams also attacked President Donald Trump during his campaign in 2020. ...
Williams declined to prosecute 65% of all criminal cases in New Orleans in 2021.
However, he slowly began to prosecute more cases as crime in the city rose, according to data from the New Orleans government’s office.
The DA still continues to prosecute, on average, only 44% of the criminals who have been charged by police.
In 2022, New Orleans was named the “murder capital of the United States.”
Violent crime was the leading cause of death for children in the city that same year.
Reality strikes! National Review ran a very encouraging story yesterday headlined, “D.C. Mayor Introduces ‘Commonsense’ Legislation to Tackle Rising Crime.” Get this: they are re-funding the police.
Yesterday, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser introduced new proposals to roll back progressive police reforms that Bowser said make it more difficult for police to ensure public safety. “We have to reverse the policy environment in the city that, quite frankly, went haywire in the last three years,” Bowser explained.
Note the passive voice. The policy environment went haywire. Not anybody in particular.
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