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More on the Alba case; plus the election of Manhattan’s DA Alvin Bragg — 21 Comments

  1. I suppose there are folks who are just stuck in a place, but why live in a sh/t hole, with crazy people in charge. The right of self defense is in the Bible , and the Constitution . We get the government we deserve .
    Oh great meteor of redemption wherefore art thou ?

  2. NYC’s Bragg may well prove to be the worst of the entire ghastly assortment of Soros-funded DAs, who in city after city are devoted to the enforcement of “anarcho-tyranny”, leniency towards violent criminals and punitive measures against ordinary citizens should they happen to be of the wrong ethnicity or the wrong ideology. SF now has a replacement; she is also “progressive”, but could hardly be any worse than the loathsome Chesa, while the fate of LA’s equally odious Gascon hangs in the balance. One of the strangest elements of this story ( which is all too indicative of the sad decline of Gotham) is the very costly shirt worn by the decedent, whose favoring of a particular brand has made the designer (Amiri) famous for the moment.

  3. When enough voters feel unsafe for long enough, voter participation increases and a Guiliani is voted into office.

    When enough voters feel safe for long enough, voter participation decreases and a de Blasio is voted into office.

    The pattern could not be more obvious.

  4. Neo: “I’m not sure why turnout is so low there for something so important. I’m not making excuses for it, but it’s one of the things that allows an extremist such as Bragg to be elected.”

    Here in Washington state, they instituted all mail ballots in 2011. The main reason given was to increase turnout and participation. Strange about that. Last November the turnout here in Snohomish County was 35%. Really bad, IMO. Only local offices involved, but those are the ones that count the most. The local official’s policies and actions will have the most affect on your life. Yet, people aren’t interested or can’t be bothered to vote

    The Democrats who run Washington state and New York City have it figured out. Low turnout = good. Easier to turn out enough votes to win. Mail in ballots = good. Much easier to produce enough phony ballots to win.

    Steve White’s comments about the Soviet system and what the Democrats are doing is spot on. The Gramscian march is well along its path. We should be calling them what they are – Marxists.

  5. Kiki,

    Newton’s Second Law of Motion; “An object at rest will remain at rest until acted upon by an outside force” applies to people as well as inanimate objects.

    The ‘progressive’ left rejects both the Bible and the Constitution.

    They are working to throw both upon history’s ash heap.

  6. I grew up in a neighborhood similar to the one where this took place. For those of you who didn’t, what may not be obvious is EVERY station where money is exchanged is a fortress. Many cashiers are behind walls of bullet proof glass. (Self-serve gas station mini marts look like Fort Knox.) Every regular patron knows if they breach that barrier they WILL be met with force.

    All cash drawers have a small, dense baseball bat or club right below the drawer. Or a crowbar. The cashier can reach it in a fraction of a second. Many have knives or revolvers within easy reach. No one wanders into that space to “go back and forth with words.” It is intentionally very visually a non-public fortress. It takes a very deliberate, conscious effort to get behind the counter.

  7. Rufus T. Firefly:

    Yes, and New Yorkers know this, as does Bragg. Anyone looking at the video can see the sort of setup, too.

  8. Regarding the Democrat machine in these areas. It can be overcome, but it takes a major, deliberate and very well led effort. A lot of people in these communities have jobs with the government, or adjacent to the government.* I have a close family member who was involved with this. Precinct and Ward captains get marching orders on how many votes are needed to put the machine candidate in. They have a nearly inexhaustible supply of minions to ensure the number of people needed get to the polls. And they make sure those people pull the correct levers.

    Low turnout in Democrat machine run areas is not a sign that a small number of motivated voters can overcome the machine. It is a sign that the machine is so confident it doesn’t even bother running up the tally.

    *This 3:14 second clip from Rodney Dangerfield’s “Back to School” explains big city economics and politics as well as a 314 page Thomas Sowell book.

  9. Rufus T. Firefly:

    Low turnout makes the machine’s task easier, however. If the actual turnout was very very high, it would be much harder to overcome it. However, in NYC, I think that the Democrat percentage of actual voters is so high that the Democrat would nearly always win anyway.

  10. neo,

    I agree. I didn’t mean to imply it’s futile. Ousting corrupt politicians like Bragg not only can be done, it should be done. I’m just pointing out it takes a lot of people working closely together. Intimidating phone calls will be made. Threats will be made, and possibly implemented. Shrinking violets need not apply. Fortunately, as you pointed out in a prior post, New York produces a lot of Vickie Paladino’s!

  11. Solzhenitsyn in The Gulag Archipelago pointed out that the camp guards were deliberately chosen from the criminal class. They would do whatever they were told and had no problem with brutality.

  12. That last train wreck of a mayor in New York was elected for his first term, as he and his supporters constantly reminded everyone, with 75% of the vote, and therefore a “landslide,” giving him a “mandate” to be a lefty mayor. But something like fewer than 25% of eligible voters bothered to vote.

  13. The lunatics (and psychos) are in charge of the asylum.
    The criminals (and thugs) are in charge of the precincts.
    “It takes a [liberal] village…”

  14. Related:
    “NYC bodega owners urge DA Bragg to drop murder charges against Jose Alba”—
    https://nypost.com/2022/07/10/nyc-bodega-owners-urge-da-bragg-to-drop-murder-charges-against-clerk-jose-alba/
    He’s still in Riker’s.
    Wonder if Adams (and “Biden”) are gonna get the race war they seem to badly want (and need?)….

    + Bonus:
    “Texas AG Demands Biden Apologize Over Mounted Border Agents Controversy”—
    https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ken-paxton-cbp-agents-whipping-migrants/2022/07/09/id/1078047/
    “There is no coincidence Latinos are shifting to the right: Bienvenido founder”—
    https://video.foxnews.com/v/6309336135112/

  15. “The lunatics (and psychos) are in charge of the asylum.” (continued)….
    ‘Terrified Dems Ramp Up ‘Worse Than Trump’ Anti-DeSantis Narrative as Fears About His Popularity Grow;
    ‘ “If you think Donald Trump is dangerous for our democracy & freedoms then let me introduce you to Ron DeSantis. He has turned Florida into DeSantis-stan where the only freedoms you are allowed are ones he personally approves of. You can not spell Dictator w/o the D.” ‘
    https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/07/terrified-dems-ramp-up-worse-than-trump-anti-desantis-narrative-as-fears-about-his-popularity-grow/

  16. “Reform clubs” worked to take down the old Tammany Hall Democratic machine in the 1950s and 1960s. Now it looks like they are the new machine. With low turnouts, activists are the only ones who vote in the primaries, and Republicans or third party candidates aren’t going to win, so effectively, the activists run the borough.

  17. I have a vague memory from the early days of the pandemic where authorities claimed they had to release “non-violent” prisoners to protect them from the ravages of COVID-19, meanwhile arresting parents for attending sparsely attended JV football games sans mask or going to parks with their kids sansd mask or chasing down paddle boarders on the beaches of SoCal. Good times!

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