[Breitbart] California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) used the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, on Tuesday to attack Republicans over gun control, though violent crime and homicides have increased dramatically in the Golden State in recent years.
Newsom reacted after a shooting in which an armed 18-year-old murdered 19 children and two adults after infiltrating the school. The perpetrator was killed by an armed Border Patrol agent who happened to be nearby and rushed into the school.
Despite Newsom’s claims, violent crime is up in much of the state, including homicide. The Associated Press reported last year:
Homicides in California jumped 31% last year, making it the deadliest year since 2007, and Black people accounted for nearly one-third of all victims as the nation’s most populous state struggled with the coronavirus pandemic and concerns over racial injustice, according to reports released Thursday.
The 2,202 homicides last year were 523 more than in 2019, while the rate increased by a similar margin — from 4.2 to 5.5 homicides per 100,000 people.
That’s the most slayings since 2,258 people were killed in 2007, and the rate is the highest since 2008. Black people make up 6.5% of California’s population but accounted for 31% of all victims last year. Hispanic people accounted for 45%, while 16% were white.
There have also been several mass shootings in California despite the state’s strict gun control laws, backed by Newsom.
Some of California’s gun control laws have also been unconstitutional. Earlier this month, the liberal Ninth Circuit struck down a ban on the sale of semiautomatic rifles — those that reload one bullet after one fire — to those between 18-20.
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Wasn't it just yesterday we had video on this site of a smash and grab attempt in a California jewelry store?
Here's another question: How many homeless freaks have overdosed on fentanyl and died on California streets during Newsom's time as governor? I'm guessing the number exceeds by quite a bit the number of kids who just died in Uvalde. And what about the homeless people who die from all kinds of other causes? How about we get some fentanyl control? Some homeless freak control?
It's never good when people die before their time like those kids in that school but Newsom is big hypocrite who should mind his own business.
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Fentanyl overdoses? Leftist saint Margaret Sanger smiles up from Hell.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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The Dems think they can grave dance their way to victory in November. They have nothing to offer but continued misery and death.
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05/25/2022 14:09 Comments ||
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Most of their constituency wants death. As long as it's who they want dead.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Gates should be careful. He likes to fancy himself a genius but he made his money selling shoddy, bloated, bug-ridden software that he paid other people to design and code while he stifled his competition. He was lucky to be in the right place at the right time with a product that was only just barely good enough.
If he gets into a fight with somebody who really is a genius and has as much money as he does, he might not be happy with the consequences.
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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^ He plays for Team Deep State Globalist. He need be neither smart, good nor lucky.
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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If I had Musk's money I would just have the lil shithead killed.
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05/25/2022 12:09 Comments ||
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If I had Musk's money I wouldn't waste my time trying to piss up a rope. Don't get me wrong. I respect the man for the most part.
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[Breitbart] The United States Census Bureau undercounted five red states and overcounted six blue states in the 2020 Census, according to a report issued by the agency this month.
For years, the establishment media and left-wing think tanks went after former President Donald Trump’s administration by accusing officials of using the 2020 Census to undercount constituencies that leaned Democrat.
When Trump sought to put the American citizenship question back on the Census, left-wing Brookings Institute executives accused the administration of trying "to hijack" the process and "imperil America’s future."
The Washington Post editorial board, in March, alleged that the Trump administration "got exactly what it wanted" when the Census Bureau found that minority communities in the United States had been undercounted in the final tally.
"The Trump administration might have failed in its effort to exclude undocumented immigrants from the U.S. Census. But it still managed to get exactly what it wanted: a less accurate count that diminishes minority communities in the United States," the Post editorial board wrote.
Now, the Census Bureau has issued a report detailing how a number of states were undercounted while otherwise were overcounted. The states that were undercounted include Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas — all but one of which voted twice for Trump in the last two presidential elections.
[Breitbart] Gee thanks, Butt-Gig. Graft opportunities for the Biden Crime Family will abound
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg told the UK Guardian this week while in Europe that the U.S. backs a plan to rebuild war-torn Ukraine after Russia withdraws with a "Marshall Plan" that will involve billions of dollars in aid.
Having failed completely as secretary of transportation, is he about to be Peter Principled into the secretary of state job?
Buttigieg was in Europe for a meeting of transportation ministers from all over the world — though the U.S. is suffering supply chain shortages, a baby formula crisis, and jammed cargo ports that theoretically fall within Buttigieg’s portfolio.
See? Failed.
The idea of a "Marshall Plan" has been championed by former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, whose tenure was widely associated with corruption, leading to the election in 2019 of current president Volodymyr Zelensky in protest.
It is unclear how the U.S. and other donor nations would monitor the disbursement of aid funds to the notoriously corrupt nation. A recent U.S. military aid bill offering $40 billion in new spending lacked oversight by an inspector general.
Butgigieg told the Guardian: ""With the memory of the Marshall plan in mind, what we’re talking about is not only about how we fund immediate needs and support their ability to maintain the war effort, but how we support the ability of Ukraine to be economically viable and generate a sustainable future for themselves, even as they’re under attack."
Buttigieg argued that spending money on rebuilding transportation in Ukraine was necessary to alleviate global food and fertilizer shortages.
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If it was important, the EU would be all over it. It's not, so they're not.
This has zippo to do with EU and everything to do with the Biden crime family getting their beaks wet in the rampant corruption of Ukraine. Hell why do you think they couldn't pass $48 billion in aid for us, while $40 billion in aid sailed through for Ukraine? Corruption corruption corruption. They're all gonna get rich! For years! And we get to pay for it! War is great!
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The Ukrainian defence minister is warning that Severodonetsk us encurcked and will be the next Mariupol. The Luhansk region is lost. Donetsk will fall next.
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It's become clear why all the talk now from the Europeans, the NY Times and Kissinger is of trading land for peace. Ukrainian forces in the Donbas are falling apart. Russia will control the entire Donbas by the end of June at the latest.
"The Centre for Defence Strategies, a Ukraine-based think tank, said Russian troops were advancing across the Donbas at high speed and were within a mile of the supply line to Severodonetsk....
Rochan Consulting, a military analyst, said Ukrainian defensive lines “had crumbled near Popasna, Lyman and Severodonetsk” in recent days. "Attacks near Severodonetsk have gathered pace since Sunday. Russian forces are on the verge of entering the city,” it said on Tuesday.
Franz-Stefan Gady, of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said ending Kyiv’s control of the road would “massively complicate” Ukrainian attempts to resupply forces in the Donbas.
“Russian forces are slowly but methodically advancing and are systematically trying to cut off Ukrainian forces from their supply lines,” he said.
“The situation for Ukrainian forces is increasingly becoming critical as there is mounting anecdotal evidence that they are running low on ammunition, fuel and other supplies in the Severodonetsk-Lysychansk area.”
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The Ukrainian defence minister is warning that Severodonetsk us encurcked and will be the next Mariupol. The Luhansk region is lost. Donetsk will fall next.
Ukraine says ‘fate of the country’ could be decided in Donbas battles
Vladimir Putin’s troops close to encircling cities of Severodonetsk and Lyschansk, and seize three towns in Donetsk region
Maybe, but the capture of Bakhmut/Artemovsk is the real prize here.
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^ = encircled + fucked
Zelensky told Ukrainians today that even though things are collapsing for them, they "should be proud" of what they've managed to accomplish. This is the kind of speech a coach gives to his players after they've lost: "no reason to hang your heads," "you ought to be very proud" and so on. He's not even talking about "victory" anymore.
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Interesting: a new proposal in Ukraine's legislature (Verkhovna Rada) aims to remove a sentence in existing law stipulating that commanders may not cause death to servicemen when attempting to stop insubordination or desertion.
Evidently there's now a great deal of mutiny and desertion in the Ukrainian ranks -- understandable, given that they're press-ganging the halt lame & elderly into their depleted ranks and sending them off to be slaughtered in Mariupol or Severodonetsk. Link to the proposed legislation:
https://itd.rada.gov.ua/billInfo/Bills/pubFile/1288783
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In one of today’s translated liveblogs — Korrespondent or News Front Info — it is reported that at Davos one of the EU VIPs spoke about using confiscated Russian assets to pay for rebuilding Ukraine. An interesting trial balloon, if that’s what it is, but it’s always pleasanter to pay with other people’s money than one’s own.
1) You can spend your own money on yourself.
If you spend your own money on yourself, you’re very careful on what you spend it on. You make sure you get the most for your dollar.
2) You can spend your own money on someone else.
When you spend your own money on someone else, you’re careful on not spending too much. You don’t worry as much about the gifts you buy for other people as the things you buy for yourself.
3) You can spend somebody else’s money on yourself.
You’re careful to get good things for the money. But you’re not very worried about getting the best bang for your buck. You’re happier to spend more of somebody else’s money within reason.
4) You can spend somebody else’s money on somebody else.
You become a “distributor of welfare funds.” You’re interested in making your own life as good as you can. But you’re not going to be anywhere near as careful as spending this money on other people.
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Since it seems Russia may exact a Phyrric victory in the end, they get to pay for rebuilding Ukraine.
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^ Of course Freidman didn't add, taxpayers' money, half stolen, 10% off the top for the Big Guy.
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05/25/2022 11:24 Comments ||
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Dunno what encurcked means but it doesn't sound good.
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The Russian assets (about $200 billion) stolen by the Biden Administration won't even begin to pay for Biden's and the EU's multi-trillion dollar rebuilding boondoggle. They will spend at least 10 times that amount. Iraq cost over a trillion and Ujraine will cost much more than Iraq.
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...Iraq cost over a trillion...
And we know that Joe's brother James got his share of that.
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Don't forget Beau on the Mayor Pete Express Train.
#29
Glad ol' Buttgig got a kitchen pass to hit the rave scene. Bet he comes back with a pallet of formula in his 'diplomatic pouch'.
And monkeypox...
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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba in Davos today:
“I don't want anyone to get the feeling that the war is more or less OK. The situation in Donbass is extremely bad."
= SEND MORE MONEY into our money pit
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Same people upset about shooting in Uvalde want more shooting in Ukraine. Hey. If they can say that about being pro 2A and anti-abortion, we can too.
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The situation in Donbas is really bad
aka well and truly *encurcked
*encircled and fucked
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Indian diplomat MK Bhadrakumar:
The Western narrative that Russia is facing defeat at the hands of the Ukrainian military is falling apart. The contrived narrative that Ukraine was “winning” made Kiev delusional which in turn created conditions for Washington and London to extend the war and incrementally enter into it laterally and turn it into a war of attrition against Russia.
In reality the Russian forces are now close to establishing full control of the Luhansk region of Donbass. The Ukrainian governor of the eastern region admitted on Tuesday that “The Russians are advancing in all directions at the same time; they brought over an insane number of fighters and equipment.” The situation is looking increasingly precarious for the Ukrainian forces. (Listen to the podcast The Battlefields of the Donbass and Beyond, War on the Rocks)
The key signposts are Popasnaya and Severodonetsk in Donbass and the city of Izyum just to the north in the Kharkiv region. Popasnaya and Izyum are under Russian control already while Russian troops entered Severodonetsk yesterday. ...
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...The next big target in the Russian sights is Slovyansk. Controlling it would enable Russian forces to drive west and link up with the forces pushing south-east of Izyum. The objective is to control the supply lines by road and block Ukrainian access to rail routes from the west. Ten Ukrainian brigades were deployed in the east when the war began in February, which were regarded as the best-equipped and best-trained soldiers that Kiev has.
Indeed, the fall of Mariupol to the Russian military represents a turning point. Russia now has a land corridor to Crimea and has ended Crimea’s water and power blockade. The freshwater canal connecting the Dnieper River to the arid Crimean Peninsula is now in Russia’s hands. So is a nuclear power station to the north of the peninsula, not to mention the power grid in southeastern Ukraine which can be now connected to Russia. These are strategic gains for Russia.
Beyond Donbass and Crimea, Russia might have other objectives too in the southern region. There have been demands — at the local level so far — for merger of the southern regions of Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Mykolaiv with Crimea (Russia), which have large Russian population. Some degree of integration of this region with Russia seems to have begun.
In Kherson region, Russian currency ruble has been introduced; Russian, along with Ukrainian, will become a state language and will become the main language for office work, communication and all issues of national importance; teaching in schools and universities will be conducted in Russian. The authorities of the Kherson Region have voiced the demand for establishment of a Russian military base in the region.
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In reality the Russian forces are now close to establishing full control of the Luhansk region of Donbass.
A surprise attack by Ukrainians 24th mechanized brigade against Russian targets of the Luhansk region via a massive rocket barrage “killed the enemy in the Luhansk area“ per Operation Command West of the Ukrainian ground forces.
Ukrainian troops fire a flurry of rockets at Russian targets from a mobile launcher.
Operational Command West (OC West), a formation of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, said the attack was carried out by members of the 24th Mechanized Brigade, named after King Daniel.
The King Daniel unit, a mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, successfully destroyed their targets in the easternmost Ukrainian region of Luhansk Oblast, according to OC West.
The Ukrainian military said on 24th May: “Rocket artillerymen of the 24th Mechanized Brigade named after King Daniel destroyed the enemy in the region of Luhansk.”
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The Ukrainian military said on 24th May: “Rocket artillerymen of the 24th Mechanized Brigade named after King Daniel destroyed the enemy in the region of Luhansk.”
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Air going out of Chuck Schumer's gun control balloon with a loud farting sound. Beh-to's gubernatorial candidacy looking like a white dog turd out in the sun.
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The Left/Dems step on it time after time after time, but they hold a majority in Washington. Funny how that happens.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Breitbart] The United States Census Bureau undercounted five red states and overcounted six blue states in the 2020 Census, according to a report issued by the agency this month.
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