It surely hasn’t escaped your notice that cities roiled by rioting and violent crime in drug-filled neighborhoods and with (of course!) declining populations are run, and have been run, by Democrats for decades.
It has been 50 years since Rochester had a Republican mayor.
But, alas, it would be impossible today to turn the “model city” of Rochester into someplace people chose to live.
And, due to its shrinking population, you watch, the next thing will be to fill it with third world refugees (with Catholic help) as Biden promises that starting in October the first of 125,000 Africans, Middle Easterners and Asians will be landing in America.
Daniel Greenfield has a piece at Frontpage magazine this week that you should read as a cautionary tale, that is, if you haven’t been sufficiently cautioned already about Democrat governing principles.
The Democrat Model for the Future is the Worst City in America
I’ve only snipped a bit to whet your appetitive beginning with this you-can’t- make-this-up news worthy of a Saturday Night Live skit (if SNL wasn’t so PC).
As murders rose 56% and shootings shot up 90%, Rochester decided to offer iPads in exchange for “working handguns and assault rifles”. No questions asked. A week after the “largest gun buyback in Rochester history”, four people were shot in just one day.
Five months after announcing that she wanted to reimagine the police, Mayor Lovely Warren was indicted on campaign fraud charges.
You can’t make this up!
Last month, her husband was busted in the takedown of a drug ring. The cops found a semi-automatic rifle in her home. Warren, who had allied with Bloomberg’s Everytown gun control group, claimed that she knew nothing about the weapon.
It couldn’t have been too shocking since her husband had already been convicted of armed robbery.
Mayor Lovely Warren blamed the whole thing on racism….
Greenfield goes on….
Rochester isn’t suffering from excessive criminalization, but decriminalization. And the last thing a city overrun with drugs needs is more drugs, or police defunding, EV chargers, demolishing highways, or any of the other “progressive” gimmicks that Democrats keep jumping on.
The media is right. Rochester is a model. And a cautionary tale.
The former booming industrial city is a model for what the Democrats want to do to America, gutting industrial bases, replacing work with welfare, and then using black people as lab rats for radical social experiments like drug legalization and police defunding with deadly results.
Being a “model city” now means having every toxic leftist policy idea tested on you.
Democrats have failed at the most basic elements of governance in Rochester. And yet they keep rolling out exciting new ideas to fight global warming or transform society when they can’t even handle their existing responsibilities.
Rochester is the 5th poorest city in the country. It’s also one of the dirtiest, it has the worst schools in the state and some of the lowest literacy rates. The graduation rate hovers between 40 and 50 percent. 75% of Rochester’s children are being raised by single parents.
If Mayor Lovely Warren really wants to “close the wealth gap between Black and Brown people and our White neighbors”, then she might want to start there, instead of writing checks for black people from drug money while turning Rochester streets into war zones with police defunding.
And, it is all the fault of “systemic racism.”
And then they blame the corrupt, violent, and impoverished hellholes their economic and social policies created on “systemic racism”.
When the news broke yesterday that the meat giant JBS (sometimes known by its previous name Swift) had been hit with a ransomeware attack that shut down meat processing in one of the largest meat processors in the world, my first thought was that if they have financial trouble I don’t care.
For over a decade I have reported, at my other blog Refugee Resettlement Watch, how Big Meat and Big Poultry are changing America’s heartland by being one of the largest drivers of the US Refugee Resettlement Program.
The work is dirty, wages low and turnover high so they need a never-ending supply of migrant laborers of all stripes including large numbers of Somali ‘refugees.’
This is a photo I took of JBS US headquarters in Greeley, CO when I drove around the country in 2016 to see how refugee resettlement was changing the character of American towns. President Trump shocked JBS, Cargill, Tyson Foods and others when he slowed the flow of refugees to the US. See many posts on the topic at RRW. https://refugeeresettlementwatch.org/?s=JBS+Trump
Think about it! A Brazilian-owned company is changing the demographic make-up of the United States! And, when you buy their meat, you support changing America by changing the people.
And if that isn’t bad enough, since wages are so low, you also fund the social safety net that refugee workers are permitted to tap into.
Is that meat you enjoy worth it? If you can’t live without beef, pork and chicken, I recommend finding a local source!
Here is the superficial story about what is going on, from Yahoo News:
JBS: Cyber-attack hits world’s largest meat supplier
The world’s largest meat processing company has been targeted by a sophisticated cyber-attack.
Computer networks at JBS were hacked, temporarily shutting down some operations in Australia, Canada and the US, with thousands of workers affected.
The company believes the ransomware attack originated from a criminal group likely based in Russia, the White House said.
The attack could lead to shortages of meat or raise prices for consumers.
[….]
~JBS is the world’s largest meat supplier with more than 150 plants in 15 countries
~It was founded in Brazil in 1953 as a slaughtering business by rancher José Batista Sobrinho
~The company now has more than 150,000 employees worldwide
~Its customers include supermarkets and fast food outlet McDonald’s
~In the US, JBS processes nearly one quarter of the country’s beef and one-fifth of its pork
[….]
JBS’s five biggest beef plants are in the US, and the shutdowns have halted a fifth of meat production there, according to Bloomberg.
[….]
Last month, fuel delivery in the south east of the US was crippled for several days after a ransomware attack targeted the Colonial Pipeline. Investigators say that attack was also linked to a group with ties to Russia.
Colonial Pipeline has confirmed it paid a $4.4m (£3.1m) ransom to the cyber-criminal gang responsible.
So that is the story for mainstream media consumption—Russian bad boys, just being bad boys—but is something else happening?
It was just posted yesterday and is up to 37,000 views already:
Cyberpandemic Meets Food Supply
Watch it and consider the possibilities presented. You shouldn’t be surprised as we have just experienced the Chinese Virus ‘crisis’ and how globalists have used it to disrupt the entire globe.
This is the latest on a post I wrote a little over a month ago about a federal contractor (Endeavors) that landed a massive no-bid contract and now the Dept. of Homeland Security Inspector General has launched an investigation.
The size of the contract and the connection to a Biden insider raises red flags.
DHS Inspector General reviewing huge no-bid contract with company connected to former Biden official
EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General’s office is evaluating a multi-million dollar contract awarded to a Texas company that employs a former Biden transition official, multiple sources with the probe confirm to Fox News.
A DHS IG official tells Fox News the contract, with the San Antonio-based nonprofit Endeavors, is the subject of an ongoing evaluation to look at how “ICE plans to house migrant families in hotels, and how ICE selected a contractor to implement these plans.” The Formal title of the probe is, “ICE’s Contract to House Migrants in Hotels.”
Tens of thousands of migrants are crossing the southern border every month, with nearly 180,000 encountered by Customs and Border Patrol along the Southwestern Border in April 2021.
Thousands of those migrants are now being housed in hotels, thanks to Endeavors. The company recently landed a couple of massive government contracts worth upwards of a half-billion dollars.
Andrew Lorenzen-Strait
On January 20th, 2021, the very day President Joe Biden took the oath of office, Endeavors put out a news release announcing the hiring of Andrew Lorenzen-Strait, a former Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official who also served as a Biden transition advisor on Homeland Security issues.
“This is a no-bid contract, and those should be used in only the most extraordinary circumstances,” said Tom Jones of the American Accountability Foundation, a conservative-leaning watchdog organization. “It’s typical and it’s terrible. Both sides do it. It’s why we have a massive budget deficit and a debt going through the roof…There’s scumminess and swampiness on both sides of this but we need to root that out.”
If you are interested in more on the Unaccompanied Alien Children invasion of America, visit my other blog RRW.
Although the mostly illegal alien teenaged boys are NOT refugees (the Open Borders cabal wants you to think they are refugees!), I’ve been posting regularly there on the issue.
The Progressive Leftwingers are masters at keeping the political pot boiling. You can do it too!
Make their heads explode!
Surely you saw the stunt a couple of Trump supporters pulled at Yankee Stadium on Thursday. It was a peaceful protest, no one was hurt, but the reaction by the media was swift and angry, and fun to watch.
Reportedly fans in the stands booed the message, but hundreds of thousands of Trumpsters cheered at home.
If you missed it, here is the NY Postquoting a reporter who called it a “conspiracy theory banner.”
Men booted from Yankee Stadium after displaying ‘Trump Won’ banner
And, what about those audits?
Have you been following especially Arizona right now? If you were confident in your assertions that no massive fraud occurred why would you fight so hard to stop that audit and all of the others bubbling up?
You would think that Biden/Harris would be eager to prove they legitimately won and be demanding audits!
You gotta love Sidney Powell who spoke at a Dallas eventand answered a question we have all had in our minds. What happens if massive fraud is revealed in several key states? Will the election be overturned?
Sidney Powell: We’re definitely in uncharted territory. There are cases where elections have been overturned. But there’s never been one at the presidential level where everybody will jump to point out. That doesn’t mean it can’t be done, though. There’s always the first case. And as far as I know, this is the first case of abject fraud and obtaining a coup of the United States of America. So, it’s going to have to be dealt with. It should be that he can simply be reinstated, that a new inauguration day is set. (cheers) And Biden is told to move out of the White House. And President Trump should be moved back in.
She is right. This could be accomplished.
Otherwise we keep stirring the political pot and wait until 2024.
There is no way Biden will make it that long. Kamala is too wildly UNPOPULAR and dimwitted to win on her own. Did you see her tone-deaf tweet for the weekend set aside to remember our fallen heroes!
Criticism was swift, brutal and justified.
She may have O beat in the narcissist sweeps.
But, the question is, how much damage will they do before they get the heave-ho? A lot!
For instance, see my posts at RRWabout the Unaccompanied Alien Children (aka New Democrats) who are arriving by the tens of thousands—changing America every day that those two remain in charge.
The Progressive Leftwingers are masters at keeping the political pot boiling. You can do it too!
