Maybe it\u2019s because it\u2019s July, my favorite time of the year.\u00a0 And because I\u2019m on vacation this week, which removes a very serious irritant in the way of my annoying boss.\u00a0 But whatever the reason, I\u2019m just not able to feel gloomy this week.\u00a0 I\u2019ve decided that I will look at the flip-side of all the horror going on and paint a rosy picture of the time ahead.<\/p>\n
First of all, I read that the Federal government has declined to grant Minnesota a declaration of national emergency to allow them to receive federal funds to help them repair the estimated $500 million worth of damage done by Mayor Frey\u2019s city sponsored arson\/looting riot.\u00a0 Putting that on top of the cost of all the police overtime needed to try to quell the ongoing gang wars currently depopulating the more toxic neighborhoods of Minneapolis and adding in the losses in city taxes associated with the closing of so many businesses, some leaving the city permanently and some unable to re-open at all, it paints a picture of a city on the rocks.\u00a0 And just to make sure that things don\u2019t get better, the city council\u2019s decision to defund the police has a large number of officers opting for early retirement with the rest of them essentially refusing to perform any police function riskier than directing traffic.<\/p>\n
The upshot of the police stepping back is the gangs have declared it open season on their enemies and their neighborhoods have become shooting galleries with, unfortunately, young children becoming a prominent part of the collateral damage to the civilian population.\u00a0 The non-criminal population has complained to the city council and warned them that defunding the police is tantamount to starting a war in their neighborhoods but the council doesn\u2019t really care about their problems so far.\u00a0 They\u2019re so excited by the whole police defunding narrative that they can\u2019t see where this will lead.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m trying to guess what proportion of Minneapolis will have to leave to catch the city council\u2019s attention.\u00a0 Minneapolis has a population of 430,000 people.\u00a0 If 20,000 people leave, which would be in line with what\u2019s happening in New York (5%), that would surely put a serious dent in the tax base.\u00a0 Especially since the ones leaving will be the upper middle class that has the wherewithal to leave.\u00a0 Sometime this fall I\u2019m imagining the sum total of the misery they\u2019ve created is going to come crashing down on the mayor and city council.\u00a0 That should be a sight to see.<\/p>\n
And pretty much the same sequence of events is going to play out in all the blue states that played this game of revolution theater.\u00a0 They incurred enormous costs and inflicted horrendous losses on their tax base, demoralized their citizens and destroyed their police forces.\u00a0 So that come this fall when they are talking of opening school, they\u2019ll be afraid to send their kids for fear of them not surviving the roaming bands of savages.\u00a0 What a delightful time to be a law and order candidate!\u00a0 Seriously, it may not matter in places like New York and California but I\u2019m guessing that places like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania will be ripe for the picking for campaign ads featuring their favorite state politicians ordering the police to stand down while the mob flows over and annihilates the functional parts of their city like a column of army ants stripping the flesh off the bones of an unfortunate animal in their path.<\/p>\n
And how about the statue nonsense?\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing the whole Columbus thing hasn\u2019t helped the Democrats to any Italian-American votes.\u00a0 And now that they\u2019ve started taking down statues of Frederick Douglas and even Abraham Lincoln, I think it\u2019s going to sink in for all but the stupidest that this isn\u2019t about respect, it\u2019s about trying to demoralize Americans and take away their heritage.\u00a0 I think the President did a good job at Mount Rushmore to remind people of the heritage that men like Washington and Jefferson have left us and how stupid it would be to renounce men who created this amazing land and wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, two of the most important documents in the history of mankind.\u00a0 Yes, yes.\u00a0 I see amazing opportunities to point out to the voters and to Americans in general just how feckless the Democrats have become and how much damage they\u2019ve inflicted on their own people.\u00a0 And once the COVID lockdown continues in the blue states and business stays paralyzed, they are going to be in a bad place.<\/p>\n
And on top of the negative ads it should go without saying that a positive message is even more important at a time like this.\u00a0 It should be highlighted that recovery from the economic damage of the COVID lockdown is moving rapidly to bring us back to a strong economy in 2021.\u00a0 Going along with this should be message for the base in terms of pushing back on the tech companies in their assault on the Right and protecting religious liberties.\u00a0 Hopefully Barr and his team won\u2019t prove to be completely useless and will finally move to punish the intelligence agency conspirators who caused chaos during the President\u2019s whole first term.<\/p>\n
So, cheer up.\u00a0 The Democrats have left open their flank to incoming fire to such an extent that it will make the Battle of Marathon look like a game of pattycake.\u00a0 Creepy Uncle Joe will be completely at a loss as to what to say.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing he\u2019ll just take a knee and stay there until the election is over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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