“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it”-Ronald Reagan
Rafael A. Mangual writes in City Journal that we can’t imagine what cops go through and as you read it, your heart will be touched, unless your name is Chirlane McCray whose organization, ThriveNYC (funded with taxpayers’ money) dissed a cop mental health event over Blue Lives Matter sponsorship. Petty reasoning; petty people withdrew from helping our men and women in Blue who put their lives on the line every day for every person in New York, including the employees of ThriveNYC.
The Foundation for Economic Education has a great article that every one running on the Democratic line, either for president or even to become a local town official, should read, especially since it is written by one of their own. What George McGovern Learned from Running His Own Business.
Kyle Sammin writes in National Review about a socialist predecessor of Ocasio-Cortez in Congress. Mr. Sammin’s article gives his readers a good history lesson; one that Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez should be aware of since her beliefs are so similar to those of Congressman Vito Marcantonio.
Christopher Tremoglie writes in National Review that conservatives need courage. (As a side note, he should come to New York State where he would meet a lot of conservatives with courage.)
How sick is it to have a person (@ashley_barnhill) tweet out the following message to her 11.6K followers: “men against abortion are just jealous they’ll never know how good it feels to kill a baby.” What is even sicker is the people who liked her tweet and retweeted it. The woman has no heart, nor does she have a soul.
HANNITY BLASTS DE BLASIO IN FACE-TO-FACE SMACKDOWN
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, in a desperate attempt to buoy his flailing presidential candidacy, squared off head-to-head with Sean Hannity on Fox News Wednesday night.
“I’m never going to agree with you. You drive me crazy!” Hannity yelled at the spectacularly unpopular public official.
Hannity forced de Blasio into defending socialist policies like massive new tax hikes and government benefits for illegal immigrants.
“Do you think right now your viewers feel that it’s OK that the wealthy have as much as they have and pay as little in taxes as they do?” de Blasio said about his proposal to hike taxes.
“I want everybody who’s here (in New York) to get health care because what’s happening right now? Folks go to the emergency room because they don’t have a doctor, and who’s paying for it? The same taxpayers,” said de Blasio of his support for subsidized health care for illegals.
Many liberals are not happy that de Blasio was willing to sit down with Hannity, and the interview did not likely do him any favors with his party’s radicalized base.
“Millions and millions of Americans are watching and we shouldn’t stereotype them,” de Blasio said on Monday. “A lot of those folks watching are working people who are listening to change in one form or another. And I think it’s important to challenge those right-wing voices. And while we’re having a presidential election, we have to speak to all of America.”
The risk may have been worth it for de Blasio, as there was nothing to lose. Polling at zero percent, there is nowhere to go but up for the nation’s worst mayor.
SPEAKER HEASTIE IS SENDING THE WRONG MESSAGE WHEN HE WON’T BACK FELONY CHARGES FOR POLICE ATTACKS
The Speaker of the Assembly said this week that he didn’t think adding new penalties and laws on offenders was the right solution for the current trend of throwing water on law enforcement officers. The NYS Assembly’s reputation has always been one of leniency toward criminals. This year they eliminated cash bail for non-violent offenders and supported drivers’ licenses for illegal immigrants and passed the DREAM Act that uses tax-payers money to fund aid to illegal immigrants for college. With this history, it any wonder that the leader of the Assembly would not stand up for the men and women who put their lives on the line every day in order to keep every person safe?
It appears that Speaker Heastie and the democratic controlled Assembly would prefer to coddle criminals than the men and woman who risk their lives to keep New York City safe.
Assemblyman Mike LiPetri, who appeared on America’s Newsroom this morning, is right when he states this is common sense legislation. When the Speaker said adding new penalties and laws wasn’t the right solution, essentially he gave the thugs carte blanche to continue – and possibly escalate – the attacks on NY” s Finest.
GOVERNOR CUOMO’S POPULARITY RATING FALLS TO NEW LOW
The people of New York must be getting sick of the nanny state, if the approval rating of Governor Andrew Cuomo is any indicator.
Siena College released a poll on Tuesday showing that Cuomo’s approval rating is the lowest it has been since he was elected Governor in 2011. Only 34 percent of voters believe that he is doing a good or excellent job while a stunning 64 percent of voters rated his job performance as poor or fair.
Some of Cuomo’s worst hits as Governor from this year alone include giving drivers licenses to illegal immigrants, eliminating religious exemptions for vaccinations, banning the use of single-use plastic bags, and mandatory socialist benefits for farm workers.
Cuomo is particularly unpopular with Republicans, independents and residents of upstate New York. Basically, anyone in the state of New York who can’t stand the tax-and-spend Controller-in-chief
at this point.
How quickly the left turns on their own is laid out in this article by Everett Piper. Like piranhas, the left attacks all that do not agree with their gospel and do all that they can to force their agenda on everyone. Yet it is the right that is defined as doctrinaire.
We are also defined as “deplorables” I have to ask: after reading this who are the deplorables? Then read this and ask yourself again, who are the deplorables?
“I have no knowledge that…” a favorite quote by those who want to deflect the possibility they knew something wasn’t above-board. Gov. Cuomo is fond of that phrase and used it again on Monday during a radio interview and then went on to say that a current ethics criticism was “baloney.”
America’s collective heart is shattered, once again, by senseless violence perpetrated by evil. Yes evil. How else can you explain the cold-blooded killing of 31 innocent people just shopping or having some drinks with friends? There is no doubt these atrocities must end; the question is how to end them. It is pathetic that a man who believes he is the right person to lead this nation, exploits this tragedy for the sake of politics. More gun control, as called for by the NY Post editorial board, is also, not the answer. NationalReview.com has a good response to the NY Post editorial board. The truth is, there are many steps that have to be taken to eradicate the profound evil that is a cancer trying its best to overpower our nation. We must strengthen families, we have to respect life – from inception to natural death, we must provide respected mental health services to those who demonstrate the need, and everyone should practice the golden rule: treat others the way you want to be treated. One can disagree with another person’s views and have reasonable discussions, no one is saying everyone has to agree about everything, but there is no need to be disrespectful of another person’s beliefs.
President Trump is calling for “red flag” laws. The New York State Legislature passed a “red flag” law this year and the Governor signed it. The Buffalo News has a rather comprehensive article on how the law would work – in NYS.
As the liberal media and Democratic Party officials try to manufacture an epidemic of right-wing racism, the real threat is coming from the Left as extremism rises sharply amongst their ranks.
Another example of this epidemic happened on Tuesday in New York City where a minority Trump supporter was viciously beaten for wearing a MAGA hat. 42-year-old John Turan reported that he was ambushed by a mob while on Canal Street.
“I love President Trump. I think he’s doing a great job,” Turan said.
About 15 youths cursed out Trump as they stomped on Turan’s face, causing a cheek fracture and an extremely swollen eye. He will likely never wear the MAGA hat publicly ever again because of the terrorist intimidation against him.
“It’s sad to get beat up for wearing this hat. This is America,” Turan said.
It won’t be America for much longer if the militant Left can regain control of the country in 2020. While most hate crimes reported by the Left turn out to be phony ala Jussie Smollett, the epidemic of terrorism inflicted on conservatives and Trump supporters is all too real.
NYC’S RACIAL SCHOOL CURRICULUM ENRAGES PARENTS
New York City continues to crumble under the stewardship of clueless Mayor Bill de Blasio, and the latest disgrace is a race-based school curriculum that injects social justice dogma into public schools to the detriment of all children.
“I think it’s just wrong. I think it’s misguided,” parent Yiatin Chu said to CBS New York.
Maurice Blackmon, a NYC teacher who apparently supports the changes, explained the changes that he is already in the process of implementing.
“What am I teaching, how am I teaching, based on who I’m teaching,” he said
Under the new curriculum, teachers like Blackmon will be teaching their predominantly Latin and African-American students about hip-hop artists in social studies class.
“For instance as a social studies teacher that serves a student body that is primarily Latin and black I have designed curricula around the hip-hop culture,” Blackmon said.
Chu believes that certain communities, including Asian-Americans, are being hurt by this curriculum that is dumbing down and politicizing education for all students.
“The Asian community, specifically the Chinese community, is one of the poorest communities in New York City and I’m disgusted that the mayor treats our group this way – aligning us with white privilege,” Chu said during a contentious meeting in Chinatown.
Children in public schools have become glorified guinea pigs for liberal creeps who want to train a generation of automatons unable to challenge their perverse dogma.
DEMOCRATS CONTINUE TO EMBARRASS WITH THEIR REMARKS
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s presidential ambitions are not gaining any momentum after months of campaigning, and his debate performance on stage in Detroit earlier this week showed why he has no shot at gaining the Democratic Party nomination to face Trump in 2020.
During his opening salvo, de Blasio was heckled by ‘Black Lives Matter’ activists who yelled at him “Fire Pantaleo” – referring to the cop who was involved in the death of Eric Garner. As usual, de Blasio passed the buck and blamed others for his own substandard leadership.
“There is finally going to be justice in the next 30 days in New York,” de Blasio claimed. Making matters worse, de Blasio was embarrassed by ‘Sleepy’ Joe Biden of all people.
“I don’t hear an answer from the vice president,” de Blasio said to Biden regarding former President Obama’s aggressive deportation policies. “Did you say those deportations were a good idea, or did you go to the president and say, ‘This is a mistake, we shouldn’t do it.’ Which one?”
“I was vice president. I am not the president. I keep my recommendation in private. Unlike you. I’d expect you would go ahead and say whatever was said privately,” Biden snapped back to de Blasio.
De Blasio wasn’t the only candidate who disappointed during the week’s debates Even Democratic Party leaders are expressing public concern over how awful the debates were for the Party.
“I think these debates are really silly,” he said. “Just the incessant focus on these relative minor divisions between candidates might make for good TV but I don’t think gives people an accurate portrayal of the stakes of this election,” Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said.
“If we get all focused on the differences between, say Bernie [Sanders] and Cory [Booker] and Mayor Pete [Buttigieg] and [John] Hickenlooper, we’ll lose sight of the fact that it’s Donald Trump who’s now trying to reduce health care, destroy health care, get it rid for everybody,” New York Sen. Chuck Schumer said. “That’s a trap we shouldn’t fall into.”
“People take sides and then they become hypersensitive and that just makes divisions all over the party and we don’t want that,” she said. “I want every one of our candidates to do well,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California said.
Beto O’Rourke, who lives in the border town of El Paso, Texas, in explaining his stance on decriminalizing border crossings by undocumented immigrants, said: “In my administration, after we have waived citizenship fees for green card holders, more than 9 million of our fellow Americans, free Dreamers who many fear of deportation, and stop criminally prosecuting families and children for seeking asylum and refuge, and for-profit detention, and so that no family has to make that 2,000-mile journey, then I expect that people who come here follow our laws and we reserve the right to criminally prosecute them.”
Meanwhile Presidential Candidate Marianne Williamson pledged to reverse Trump’s Golan Recognition: “I would rescind the president’s affirmation of sovereignty of Israel over the Golan Heights,” she said in response to the Council on Foreign Relations. “I understand the occupation of the Golan, but only until there is a stable government in Syria with whom one can negotiate.”
With Democratic Party leaders admitting the perilous nature of their field, things are looking good for Trump’s re-election chances in 2020.
Most of the news today is regarding the last two nights of democratic debates and the professional analyzers will tell you all about the various winners and losers from their perspective. Some extol Sen. Gillibrand, some call VP Biden the comeback kid, some even see Sen. Cory Booker as a winner. My assessment, (I readily admit I am not a professional analyst) is that the American public lost and lost big by being subject to the pie-in-the-sky, I will say what you want to hear and promise you the world, empty rhetoric pandering for your vote, being emitted by each democrat on the stage for the last two days, knowing full well that most of the ideas coming forth would bankrupt America.
What are the chances of this happening when the Democrats control the Senate and Assembly? I’d like to know if Gov. Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio support this proposal.
It is shameful that Commissioner O’Neill is lashing out at his officers instead of standing up for them. Quoting stats is not how you stand up for the men and woman who put their lives on the line every day for every person in New York City. The men and woman in law enforcement go to work, not looking for accolades for doing their jobs – a special calling to protect others – rather, they just want to do what they swore an oath to do and not be harassed while doing their job. At the very least, the NYPD Commissioner should not be lashing out at them, he should be standing up for them.
Governor, how are things going at the MTA? Not very well according to an analysis by Comptroller DiNapoli. Gee, Governor, it has been under your control for how long and it still isn’t up to par.
Tomorrow would have been Milton Freedman’s 103rd birthday. The Nobel winning conservative economist had some great quotes you may enjoy. I’m having a hard time choosing my favorite, but I will tell you this, I believe #18 describes the Squad.
Talk about chutzpah, really, Mayor de Blasio? Not for anything, but Donald J. Trump, has done more for New York City (and state) than you in your position as Mayor, as Public Advocate or while you were on the City Council. It is amazing and disappointing that you think he will “not be welcomed back” after his term as President ends. Then again, it is amazing that you think you could be elected president.
New York City cops are sick of having their authority undermined by Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio, and they are speaking out about leftist policies that put the city at risk.
“This disrespect for the uniform in NYC is a result of a Democrat-Progressive (Retrogressive)-Socialist Mayor,” former Mayor Rudy Giuliani said to de Blasio in a Tweet on Tuesday. “This is what happens with knee-jerk disrespect for police. It will only get worse until these Left-wing idiots are defeated.”
De Blasio snapped back at Giuliani, twisting the words of America’s Mayor, and claiming ridiculously that New York City has never been safer.
De Blasio wrote, “When you disrespect our NYPD officers, you disrespect ALL New Yorkers. We don’t tolerate that in our city.” He added, “The truth is crime’s NEVER been lower in New York City and that’s because we’re bridging the divide between police and communities — a divide @RudyGiuliani”
This was when NYPD Sergeants Benevolent Association President Ed Mullins had seen enough. He had to chime in with some politically incorrect language to call out the Mayor’s lies.
“Save the BULLS**T with the stats. You are the cause of attacks on the NYPD. You will NEVER be president of this great nation NEVER!” Mullins tweeted to de Blasio.
Cops are regularly being attacked by mobs who douse them with buckets of water, as de Blasio emboldens criminals and thugs throughout New York City. The police are getting sick of it, as the rule of law is crumbling under far-left rule.
AUTHORITARIAN ANDREW CUOMO DECLARES: “I AM THE LEFT!”
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is an extreme authoritarian, and he is attempting to law down the law to his own political party. Angry that socialist New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and her “squad” are stealing the headlines, Cuomo made an arrogant declaration this week.
“I am the left,” Cuomo said in Judge Dredd-esque fashion during a recent radio interview. He also criticized the radical upstarts in an op/ed published by the New York Times.
“True progressives understand that if we fail to perform or pursue misguided, uninformed or unworkable priorities, we make government look incompetent, proving Republicans right and losing the vital public support we need to gain,” Cuomo wrote.
“Progressivism is not about the ability to make promises, but about the ability to deliver them. While this distinction may be too subtle for the Twitter dialogue of today, it makes all the difference. How we define a true progressive will determine our electoral — and more importantly our governmental — success,” the governor wrote to conclude his op/ed.
Unfortunately for Cuomo, President Donald Trump has tricked the Democrats into rallying around Ocasio-Cortez’s squad with an ingenious series of tweets against the foursome. Cuomo is rapidly losing influence within his own Party, and the Democrats are embracing outright madness heading into 2020.
IMPEACHMENT DREAMS FIZZLE OUT AFTER MUELLER TESTIMONY
Former special counsel Robert Mueller gave testimony before Congress this week, and Democrats are in panic mode as the impeachment of President Donald Trump seems more unlikely than ever.
Even extreme socialist Michael Moore has admitted that Trump was the big winner of the day.
“A frail old man, unable to remember things, stumbling, refusing to answer basic questions…I said it in 2017 and Mueller confirmed it today — All you pundits and moderates and lame Dems who told the public to put their faith in the esteemed Robert Mueller — just STFU from now on,” Moore commented in a tweet while Mueller struggled through questioning.
Trump put it best when he said: “The Democrats had nothing, and now they have less than nothing.”
