“Progressive Paradise” – Page 28

The Cuban Revolution Won’t Be Televised

Because a functional communist state was always a figment of leftists’ imaginations.

Citizens charged their government with repression. The rebuttal came via a truncheon. Some people miss their own irony.

The Cuban government killed one protester, roughed up cameramen for the Associated Press, abducted citizens from their homes, and shut down the internet in response to demonstrations that erupted last weekend. “The order to fight has been given,” President Miguel Díaz-Canel announced. “Into the street, revolutionaries!”

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2021July 16, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise", Cuba

Don’t Even Think About Calling the Cops

For New York City progressives, not even violent crime warrants police intervention.

It’s an article of faith among New York City’s progressive leadership that punishment does not deter crime and that putting criminals in jail is at least as evil as whatever they did to get there. From this perspective, sending someone to jail is the worst thing that society can do: it not only destroys the life of the perpetrator but also creates a false sense of accomplishment, while ignoring the socioeconomic “root causes” of crime.

by Blazingcatfur•July 16, 2021July 16, 2021•0•"Depolicing", "Progressive Paradise"

Biden sends federal ‘strike force’ to Chicago to combat violent crime. It’s ok now because it’s not Trump?

President Joe Biden is sending a federal “strike force” to Chicago as well as major liberal strongholds such as New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., to combat violent crime and “illegal gun trafficking.”

The Department of Justice originally announced the strike force teams. They will be coordinating with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and will share information with state and local law authorities over guns and related crime. Biden claims the teams will not infringe on Second Amendment rights.

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2021July 12, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise"

America’s Far-Left Silent As Cubans Cry Out For Freedom From Communist Dictatorship

Top far-left figures in American politics were silent on Sunday as Cubans took to the streets crying out for freedom from the nation’s communist dictatorship.

Videos circulated on social media of Cubans marching in the streets, protesting the impoverished conditions of the island and their lack of freedom under the far-left communist regime. They did so while chanting “Liberty” and “Freedom” and waving an American flag. The communist dictatorship later started cracking down on the protests, allegedly inflicting violence on the unarmed protesters and cutting off internet access.

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2021July 12, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise", Cuba

Gaslights all over: San Francisco D.A. Chesa Boudin smears his critics and defends his record as crime engulfs city

Now that Neiman-Marcus has been openly looted, Target has cut its hours to stave shoplifting losses, and Walgreens can’t take it anymore and has shut 17 stores, what does San Francisco’s pro-criminal far-left district attorney, Chesa Boudin have to say for himself?

Everyone else is at fault. Oh, and he’s got a good record, too.

by Blazingcatfur•July 12, 2021July 11, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise"

No Shopping Carts Allowed Outside San Francisco Safeway Amid Theft Concerns

Hoping to stop theft, one San Francisco Safeway is no longer allowing shoppers to take their carts outside the store.

An employee at a Market Street Safeway told NBC Bay Area that dozens of shopping carts have been stolen recently. Published reports say as many as 160 have been taken in the past few weeks.

h/t JK

by Blazingcatfur•July 11, 2021July 11, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise", WTF?

What’s happening in San Francisco goes far beyond ‘shoplifting’

We’re hearing a lot about the overwhelming number of murders and attempted murders in Chicago and New York. San Francisco has gone in a different direction. It seems to have become the “shoplifting” capital of America. This honor goes along with its long having been the capital of America for car break-ins. It’s so bad that I know suburbanites who refuse to drive in the city.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2021July 7, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise"

If you’re going to San Francisco…

San Francisco thieves flee with designer handbags during brazen robbery at luxury store Neiman Marcus

Exclusive: Video of Neiman Marcus getting robbed by 10 ppl this evening in San Francisco! San Francisco is lawlessness personified! Thank you Chesa Boudin and mayor and our supervisors who all love and support these dumb and dangerous policies implemented by the DA! pic.twitter.com/mMznzYqDua

— Asian Crime Report (@activeasian) July 6, 2021

by Blazingcatfur•July 6, 2021July 6, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise"

Shopping in San Francisco Gets a Lot More Difficult Thanks to Far-Left Criminal Justice Policies

A recent viral video shows a man in San Francisco riding a bike through Walgreens, filling a garbage with merchandise, and sailing out of the store with a security guard and store employee standing helplessly by. Another viral video shows a thief jumping over a counter and then leaving on a scooter while a TV crew does a story on shoplifting. Such scenes have become so common in San Francisco that retail chains are applying new rules to their operations in the city.

by Blazingcatfur•July 5, 2021July 5, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise", WTF?

L.A.’s Homeless Racket

Gentle readers, will your vacation travels bring you to Los Angeles this summer? You’ll want to visit Universal Studios and Disneyland, surely, or maybe take a stroll down the beach in Malibu or Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. And you’ll want to see the wildlife at the Los Angeles Zoo, which at last has reopened after being shut down during the pandemic. But if it’s truly exotic life forms you wish to see, you can’t go wrong with a day trip down to Venice Beach, the zoo that never closes, where you’ll be treated to a spectacle that would have had Marlin Perkins cowering in his Land Rover.

by Blazingcatfur•July 4, 2021July 4, 2021•0•"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Progressive Paradise"

‘Our City’s a Sh**hole’: 40% of San Francisco Residents Say They Want Out

San Francisco is dying. The “City by the Bay” is drowning in crime, homelessness, and well-deserved bad press. Now residents are taking the hint: criminals won’t go, so they will.

by Blazingcatfur•July 2, 2021July 2, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise"

Has the Military Lost Middle America?

Traditionalist and conservative America once was the U.S. military’s greatest defender.

Bipartisan conservatives in Congress ensured generous Pentagon budgets. When generals, active or retired, became controversial, conservative America usually could be counted on to stick with them.

Seems that was the goal.

by Blazingcatfur•July 1, 2021July 1, 2021•0•"Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism, "Progressive Paradise"

The New Social Justice War on Drugs is Bigger Than Ever

Democrat drug cartels fight Mexican drug cartels for billions in drug money.

California legalized pot 5 years ago, but you couldn’t tell that from the scale of the drug war.

Every few months brings another massive bust. A 40-acre illegal pot farm in an obscure part of Death Valley, the “most elaborate illegal marijuana” setup in Mendota with 50,000 pot plants that was so big that police could smell it from 1,100 feet in the air, “vast groves” worth $169 million in the eastern Sierras, and $285 million in the old Shasta region of the gold rush.

by Blazingcatfur•July 1, 2021June 30, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise"

Backlash by the Bay – San Francisco residents are fed up with city officials’ lack of action on open-air drug use.

Tucked deep in San Francisco’s sixth district is Dodge Place, a residential street located in the notorious Tenderloin neighborhood. It’s been overtaken by drug users who come to get high, descend into madness, and then destroy themselves and their surroundings. Dodge is a dead end, literally and figuratively—a combat zone, with all sides fighting for their lives.

by Blazingcatfur•June 28, 2021June 28, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise"

Prosecutorial Indiscretion

Progressive district attorneys decline to pursue certain offenses, usurping the legislative role.

Baltimore is not prosecuting shoplifting or drug-possession crimes. Despite recent violent protests and occupations, St. Louis is not pursuing cases for looting and rioting, while Portland isn’t pursuing charges for trespassing. Philadelphia won’t allow prostitution charges. San Francisco is not prosecuting indecent exposure offenses. Chicago declines arrests for thefts of less than $1,000. Did a sudden decision from the Supreme Court invalidate these crimes? Are the police on strike? Are the prosecutors’ offices short-staffed? No: each office is not prosecuting these cases based on the discretion of the city’s chief prosecutor. Unfortunately, these officials misinterpret, misunderstand, and misapply the legal concept of prosecutorial discretion.

by Blazingcatfur•June 24, 2021June 24, 2021•0•"Progressive Paradise"